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The appearance scheduled is a pretrial. You are going to tell the judge or magistrate what you plan as your defense. You are not going to waste the court's time by playing games with bogus strategy.

According to LCrRLJ 4.5 PRETRIAL HEARING,

Do not assume that providing information about legal procedure or helping those persons interested in knowing legal process, statutes, codes, etc is in anyway a commitment to the issues addressed.

You have 14 days to inform the court that you are unable to make the discovery deadline. It is possible that you might be held in contempt.
Thanks for your rapid response, Deadlock. I greatly appreciate your input.

In WA St, traffic violations are civil matter and not criminal. I referenced CrRLJ 4.7 and that deals with criminal cases. The "L" prefix in front of the LCrRLJ, I understand, indicates lower jurisdictional court rules based on the CrRLJ. Please correct me if I'm wrong about that.

Also, I confirmed with the county clerk that my Oct hearing is the full trial before the judge and NOTa pretrial hearing.

The "Do not assume that providing information..." line, sadly, I'm not sure what you are saying. My intention is to provide the court with case law to allow the judge to gain greater insight to the points I'm going to make with my multi-layered defense. I'm fairly certain these points aren't made in this county very often, if at all. As for the prosecutor, he'll get his file folder of stuff moments before court starts if I can't find some legal precedent or rule to compel me to act otherwise. I may enter some pictures into evidence....but not much else. The prosecutor will get his copy of those too.

Just an FYI for any other Washingtonians, the prosecutor is only required to provide the defense a copy of the citing officer's sworn statement and with the names of any witnesses not identified in the citing officer's sworn
statement per IRLJ 3.1b. The sworn statement must be the citation, front and back. That's all I received from the prosecutor. I asked for much more.

http://www.courts.wa.gov/court_rules...eid=cljirlj3.1

Thanks again.

Koy