Jun. 4 A new appellate court ruling means there will be a closer look at public records penalties against the City of Tacoma in a case concerning a cell phone surveillance device used by police. A three judge panel of Division II of the Washington State Court of Appeals upheld most of the penalties against the city Wednesday, which totaled $182,340 for records it withheld about the device. The .
An appellate court ruling determined that public records penalties against the city of Tacoma, Wash., will be reviewed for the police department’s use of a cellphone tracking system to locate suspect devices.
Ill-intentioned misconduct by deputy prosecutor means new trial for accused killer
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 2 hrs ago Alexis Krell, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Apr. 1 A man sentenced for a gruesome attack that killed his mother at their Tacoma home needs a new trial because of a Pierce County deputy prosecutor s misconduct, an appellate court said this week.
Sebastian Levy-Aldrete argued on appeal that he didn t get a fair trial due to prosecutorial misconduct, and a three-judge panel of Division II of the Washington State Court of Appeals agreed Tuesday. The cumulative effect of these repeated instances of misconduct were substantially likely to have affected the verdict, Judge Lisa Sutton wrote for the panel. Thus, we hold that Levy-Aldrete has met his burden to show reversible prosecutorial misconduct.
An appellate court in Washington state said this week that a man who was sentenced in a gruesome attack resulting in his mother's death in 2017 will get a new trial because of prosecutorial misconduct.
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TACOMA, Wash. (Legal Newsline) – A Washington county will have to face claims it failed a woman who was beaten by her estranged husband who was under electronic home monitoring and had a history of violence.
The Feb. 9 decision by the Washington Court of Appeals says Heather Durham’s estate adequately alleged Pierce County failed its “take-charge” duty in the supervision of Abel Robinson, an HIV-positive paraplegic who was sentenced to a year of electronic home monitoring for methamphetamine charges in 2016.
His criminal history listed 18 counts of assault, domestic violence and harassment at the time of that sentencing. He was supposed to either begin the monitoring or report to jail by Aug. 5, 2016, but did neither.