PORT ANGELES — A court hearing for Robbie Wayne Davis, the Port Angeles man who allegedly tried to kill a relative with shots of insulin in late 2013 and 2014, has been reset for 9 a.m. Friday.
The status hearing to review trial dates and an amended plea offer was continued last Friday because a defense attorney was absent, Clallam County Superior Court records said.
Davis, 40, is charged with three counts of first-degree attempted aggravated murder, three counts of first-degree aggravated assault administers a destructive or noxious substance and two counts of harassment threats to kill.
Port Angeles police alleged that Davis tried to murder Richard Haynes, a non-diabetic who had Down syndrome, with potentially lethal doses of insulin in December 2013, March 2014 and June 2014.
An Olympic Medical Center nurse told police that Haynes had dangerously low blood sugar after being visited by Davis in the hospital on June 15, 2014.
Haynes, who was Davis’s stepuncle, died of complications of pneumonia in October 2014 at the age of 57.
The harassment charges were based on intercepted jailhouse letters in which Davis allegedly threatened a deputy prosecuting attorney and a caseworker, according to the affidavit for probable cause.
Davis is being held in the Clallam County jail on $50,000 bail.
His three-week trial is scheduled to begin April 11.
Clallam County Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Michele Devlin has said the trial would need to be rescheduled because of a judicial conference, according to the minutes of a Jan. 29 hearing.
An initial plea offer was submitted in April 2015.
Delays in results from DNA tests at a State Patrol crime lab have postponed Davis’ trial several times since his arrest.
Booked on June 26, 2014, Davis has been in the county jail longer than any other inmate currently incarcerated, according to the jail roster.
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