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Justice Richard B. Sanders
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State v. Rivers, 129 Wn.2d 697, 921 P.2d 495 (1996) (Sanders, J., dissenting) (arguing Washington's "Three-Strikes" Law is unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment).
Malyon v. Pierce County, 131 Wn.2d 779, 925 P.2d 1272 (1997) (for majority, volunteer chaplains for the Pierce County Sheriff's Dep't do not violate religious establishment clause).

State v. Valentine, 132 Wn.2d 1, 935 P.2d 1294 (1997) (Sanders, J., dissenting) (arguing for common law right to resist unlawful arrest with reasonable force).

 
Open Door Baptist Church v. Clark County, 140 Wn.2d 143, 995 P.2d 33 (2000) (Sanders, J., dissenting) (arguing county's zoning scheme which prohibits churches without a conditional use permit violates constitutional guarantee of religious freedom).