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Guy gets away with murder on a technicality but justice arrives years later:
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Date: September 23rd, 2025 5:54 PM Author: ,.,..,.,..,.,.,.,..,.,.,,..,..,.,,..,.,,. libs, you must be FUMING that a violent criminal who got away with it has gotten away no longer:
Victim in deadly 10th and Pike shooting identified
The man shot and killed in his SUV at 10th and Pike Wednesday night has been identified.
The King County Medical Examiner says that 26-year-old Robert Fleeks died of multiple gunshot wounds in the 9:30 PM slaying.
CHS reported here on the shooting as SPD was collecting evidence in the Wednesday slaying including three shell casings found at the scene on the ground outside the gold Chevy Tahoe that Fleeks was driving.
In 2021, Fleeks was convicted of second degree murder for a 2018 Pioneer Square homicide. Fleeks was 19 at the time of the deadly shooting. The conviction was later overturned on appeal over issues around the defendant’s statements to police.
The Seattle Police Department has not announced any arrests in last week’s murder.
here is his successful appeal which allowed him to get away with murder prior to receiving street justice:
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/wa-court-of-appeals/2182229.html
1. Robert Fleeks Jr. was convicted of one count of second degree murder and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm in the second degree. Fleeks raises several arguments on appeal, including that his defense counsel was ineffective in failing to request a jury instruction on revived self-defense after the trial court granted the State's request for a first aggressor jury instruction. We agree with Fleeks that his trial counsel was ineffective and reverse his conviction for second degree murder and remand for a retrial.
2. Fleeks also argues that he was denied the right to a jury drawn from a fair cross-section of the community, denied the right to a fair trial because a security guard was stationed behind him while he testified, denied the right to a fair trial because the trial court allowed improper opinion testimony on guilt, denied the right to confront witnesses when the trial court excluded evidence that a key witness was on probation, and that the prosecutor committed misconduct. We disagree.
3. We reverse the second degree murder conviction and remand for trial. We affirm the conviction for second degree unlawful possession of a firearm.
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