Someone asked me why I do not write more about cases that are currently in process but only give details after the fact. I appreciate the desire of people to find out about cases that that generate public interest, but I cannot comment about cases that are still in process the same way a reporter […]

Guns have been part of America since the beginning of our nation. Our forefathers wrested freedom from Britain by guns and they recognized how important to freedom was the right to be armed. They did the best they could to protect this right for future generations. They wrote it into the same documents as they […]

Starting this January, Superior Court is making a change in the scheduling of the criminal trial dockets. The actual number of weeks available for trials will remain about the same, but the trial weeks will be scheduled once per month instead of once every two months. This change will facilitate the scheduling of trials and […]

This following is a portion of a letter recently sent to the Governor and Legislature by the Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys: The prosecuting attorneys of Washington State overwhelmingly believe that the people of the state should vote on the question of whether the state should retain the death penalty as an option in cases […]

Before a defendant pleads guilty, the court must first make sure the defendant knows what he or she is doing and they have not been threatened or forced to plead guilty. The defendant must also be informed that pleading guilty means giving up certain rights, including the right to a trial and to appeal. The […]

Not long ago, I was asked to be a special deputy prosecutor for the Prosecuting Attorney of another county. I was appointed to act as a deputy of that county because there was a potential conflict of interest that prevented the prosecutor of that county from prosecuting. I handled the case until I discovered that […]

The report of the investigation of the Officer Involved Shooting last August in Hunters has been delivered to the office for review. The SIRR team, made up of detectives from several regional agencies, conducted the investigation. They have collected the physical evidence, interviewed the witnesses, gathered laboratory reports and documented everything that is humanly and […]

Election time is coming soon and ballots will arrive in the mail to be filled out and returned. This means there will be some issues related to the voting. Usually the Canvassing Board meets and resolves any issues on questioned ballots, but occasionally the Prosecutor’s office receives a referral related to ballots and voting. Most […]

October is national Domestic Violence month. The designation of this month is meant to focus attention and increase awareness of the existence of domestic violence. We often just see this as a problem wherein a man is violent to a woman. But this is not the case. The sad fact is that far too many […]

After one day of trial testimony last month, former Springdale Town Marshall, Jeremy James Adams, pleaded guilty to one count of Theft of a Firearm and two counts of Trafficking in Stolen Property in the First Degree as a result of crimes he committed involving the theft and sale of three firearms. Two of the […]