Trial remains set for Jan. 11 in case of alleged murder-by-insulin attempt

Published 12:01 am Monday, September 21, 2015

PORT ANGELES — The trial of a Port Angeles man accused of injecting a relative with a potentially deadly dose of insulin remains set for Jan. 11 after a court hearing Friday.

Robbie Wayne Davis, 40, is accused of attempting to murder his late stepuncle, Richard Haynes, a nondiabetic who had Down syndrome.

Davis is charged with three counts of attempted first-degree aggravated murder, three counts of first-degree assault-administers a destructive or noxious substance and two counts of felony harassment-threats to kill.

“We’re proceeding,” defense attorney John Hayden told Clallam County Superior Court Judge Christopher Melly in a status hearing Friday.

Hayden and Michele Devlin, chief criminal deputy prosecuting attorney, agreed to a Nov. 13 status hearing in a case that has been delayed in the past because of DNA testing.

Port Angeles police said Davis tried to kill Haynes with insulin in December 2013, March 2014 and June 2014.

Haynes died of complications of pneumonia last October at the age of 57.

The harassment charges are based on letters that Davis allegedly wrote in the county jail that threatened a deputy prosecuting attorney and a caseworker.

Davis is being held in the county jail on $50,000 bail.

He has been in the jail longer than any other inmate presently incarcerated. He was booked June 26, 2014.