A divided Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday that breath test results are admissible in a vehicular homicide prosecution even though the arresting deputy saw tiny strands of chewing tobacco stuck between the driver's teeth before administering the test.
The 5-4 decision filed Thursday morning, affirms the Court
A 30-year-old Port Angeles man sought by law enforcement since Monday afternoon was arrested Tuesday after he collided with a deputy and was stopped with a Taser, according to the Clallam County Sheriff's Office.
Aaron J. Hatfield was taken into custody at about 12:21 p.
Law enforcement is searching for a 30-year-old Port Angeles man who reportedly fled into a wooded area armed with a knife Monday afternoon following a reported domestic violence incident at a residence on South Bay View Avenue, according to the Clallam County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies were
A Clallam County Superior Court judge set bail at a combined $500,000 on Thursday for a 30-year-old Port Angeles man whose arrest this week ended a two-day search, finding that the presumption favoring release had been overcome.
Aaron J. Hatfield was taken into custody at about
A Washington appellate court has thrown out a restitution order requiring a Spokane man to pay a hospital $14,563.49 for a new eye examination device he broke, ruling that the State never proved what the hospital actually lost when its aging machine was broken.
In an opinion filed
Johnny F. Watts, Jr., the former Clallam County Drug Court coordinator now facing a federal drug charge, tested positive for methamphetamine and for fentanyl on two later dates while on pretrial release, according to a violation report filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma.
The report, submitted by
A former Wenatchee health care executive has pleaded guilty to a federal wire fraud charge and agreed to a restitution order of more than $24 million, according to records filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington.
Patrick Alan Bucknum entered the plea on June 24
The Washington State Court of Appeals, Division II, has warned counsel in Aaron Fisher's manslaughter appeal that a $250 sanction may follow unless a missed filing, or a request for more time, reaches the Tacoma court by Thursday.
A July 27 letter signed by Court Clerk/Administrator Derek
The federal case built out of the two-day March operation in Clallam County that ended at the 7 Cedars Casino is on track to slip past the end of the year.
On July 28, Jonathan E. Karns signed a written waiver of his right to a speedy trial and
A Clallam County man sent to state prison last week after a judge declined to grant an agreed mental health sentencing alternative has appealed, and the trial court has already ordered that his appeal proceed at public expense.
James R. Lundstrom filed a notice of appeal on July 28, the
A 25-year-old Poulsbo man who admitted to collecting child sexual abuse material over a three-year period was sentenced Monday in Kitsap County Superior Court to 34 months in state prison, a fraction of the 10-year statutory maximum the offense carries.
Judge Cadine Ferguson-Brown imposed the
The Washington Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that a judge who grants a mental health sentencing alternative may also waive the mandatory confinement that normally comes with a deadly weapon finding, a decision that now binds every superior court in the state.
The opinion in State v. Perrin was Thursday
A Clallam County Superior Court judge refused Tuesday to grant a mental health sentencing alternative that prosecutors and defense counsel had agreed on, and sent a 34-year-old man to state prison for 23.25 months instead.
Judge Brent Basden found that James R. Lundstrom had expressed a willingness
A 69-year-old man whose failed scheme to float hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Canada left duffel bags of drugs washed up on Clallam County beaches has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.
John Michael Sherwood, a former resident
A 47-year-old man walked into the Sequim Police Department July 16 to ask for a gas card from its human services fund and left in custody, according to a probable cause certification filed in Clallam County Superior Court.
Andy Kim, listed in charging papers at a Kent address,
A state appeals court has found the defense attorney at a gun trial "plainly deficient" for agreeing to give jurors the name of the 1998 felony that cost his client his firearm rights, after Clallam County Superior Court Judge Brent Basden repeatedly urged him not to.
The conviction
The trial of a Sequim man facing child exploitation charges has been postponed after his newly retained defense attorney asked the court to push back the trial date.
Carl King, 23, appeared July 2 for a pretrial hearing in Clallam County Superior Court, where Judge Brent Basden granted the continuance
A Port Angeles woman charged with assaulting a police officer during a Wednesday welfare check will undergo a mental competency evaluation before her criminal cases move forward, a Clallam County Superior Court judge ordered Friday.
Deanna L. Long, 41, appeared in custody Friday afternoon before Judge Brent Basden for what
A Port Angeles man accused in a 2008 North Carolina double homicide has been extradited, and the local case that held him here is closed.
Johnny S. Talbert, 43, was transported to North Carolina under a Governor's Warrant, according to court records filed Friday in Clallam County Superior
A 66-year-old man convicted of first-degree rape and first-degree attempted murder has been unconditionally released from civil commitment after the State of Washington conceded it could no longer prove he meets the legal definition of a sexually violent predator, according to King County Superior Court records
A 41-year-old Port Angeles woman is facing a felony assault charge after a Wednesday evening welfare check near Seventh and Laurel streets ended with officers carrying her to a patrol car, where police say she kicked an officer in the stomach.
Deanna L. Long made her first appearance
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