Judiciary
Ruling sought on split of military benefits in divorce
A disabled veteran has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider anew whether states violate federal law when they allow divorce courts to count a veteran's disability compensation in calculating spousal support.
Date: 05/21/2012 | Business
Ousted judges, ambassador get JFK award
BOSTON -- President John F. Kennedy's only surviving child is celebrating what would have been his 95th birthday this month by honoring three Iowa judges who were ousted after the court unanimously decided to legalize same-sex marriages.
Date: 05/07/2012 | Nation & World
Judge steps aside in Biendl murder case
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County judge stepped down Friday from the death penalty case against an inmate accused of killing a Monroe corrections officer.
Date: 03/23/2012 | Local News
Embalmer: Remarks on fat people, baby were free speech
BOSTON — Troy Schoeller admits he could have chosen his words more carefully when he talked to a reporter about bodies he worked on as an embalmer at a funeral home.
Date: 02/10/2012 | Nation & World
Jobs, genetics won't stop her from climbing
On her last day as a public defender, Marybeth Dingledy didn't talk about court cases.She talked about an 18,491-foot volcano in Mexico. She talked about seeing a climbing partner fall 100 feet during a descent of Mount Baker, the first of many peaks Dingledy has scaled.
Date: 01/29/2012 | Local News
Public defender Marybeth Dingledy appointed to county Superior Court
EVERETT -- Veteran public defender Marybeth Dingledy will become Snohomish County's newest face on the Superior Court bench.
Date: 01/12/2012 | Local News
Record on man who attacked woman must be turned over, court rules
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Date: 01/05/2012 | Local News
Anthony Howard takes job as county’s district court commissioner
ARLINGTON -- For the first time in 30 years there is a new commissioner in the county's district courts.
Date: 12/21/2011 | Local News
Polygamous 'Sister Wives' family launches challenge of Utah law
SALT LAKE CITY -- Reality TV stars Kody Brown and his four wives say they just want one thing: to be left alone.
Date: 12/20/2011 | Nation & World
Ex-lawyer ordered to addiction treatment
EVERETT -- In his 34-year career as a lawyer, Patrick Mullen stood in front of a judge many times to argue on behalf of his clients.On Monday, Mullen's challenge wasn't in making an articulate case. It was proving his sincerity.
Date: 11/14/2011 | Local News
Despite title, Supreme Court not always last word
WASHINGTON -- Nothing about the Supreme Court -- not its magnificent building atop Capitol Hill nor its very title -- suggests that its word is anything other than final. Yet federal appellate judges and even state court judges sometimes find ways to insist on an outcome the Supreme Court has...
Date: 11/14/2011 | Nation & World
Texas court puts off execution because of legal change
HOUSTON -- Texas' highest criminal court gave a reprieve Monday to a convicted murderer who had been scheduled to be executed this week, saying it needs time to review changes to a state law that his attorneys contend clear the way for new DNA testing in his case.
Date: 11/08/2011 | Nation & World
Supreme Court will hear appeals of life terms for inmates 14 and younger
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider putting a new national limit on life prison terms for juveniles age 14 or younger.
Date: 11/07/2011 | Nation & World
Out of lawyers
Man must defend himself, after 3 attorneys allegedly attacked
Date: 11/02/2011 | Local News
New Okanogan superior court judge
OKANOGAN -- Gov. Chris Gregoire named longtime Okanogan County District Court Judge Chris Culp as the county's second superior court judge.The Wenatchee World reported that Culp has served as a superior court commissioner and judge pro tem.
Date: 11/02/2011 | Northwest
Ireland's judges lose their wigs in austerity move
DUBLIN -- Hundreds of Ireland's judges abandoned their wigs for the first time in centuries Friday after the Irish Courts Service ended the rule requiring them to wear the British-style headgear.
Date: 10/15/2011 | Nation & World
Judge will announce next week if he’ll step down from Byron Scherf’s murder trial
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County Superior Court judge declined to decide Thursday whether he'll step down from overseeing the trial of a convicted rapist accused of killing Monroe corrections officer Jayme Biendl.
Date: 10/06/2011 | Local News
Retired Benton County Judge Staples found dead
RICHLAND -- Retired Benton County Judge Fred Staples was found dead Monday outside his Richland home.The Tri-City Herald reports police are investigating the death, but it is not a homicide.
Date: 09/20/2011 | Northwest
Last pieces to judges' puzzle
Courthouse's wall of jurists gets two final portraits
Date: 09/16/2011 | Local News
Everett man’s prison sentence delayed while gang tattoos are removed
EVERETT -- An Everett man was sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison for his part in a 2010 robbery-turned-homicide at an apartment building on W. Casino Road.
Date: 09/09/2011 | Local News
12 years for slaying suspect
Arlington man given sentence below standard range
Date: 08/25/2011 | Local News
Everett will pay $25,000 to settle suit over teen’s interrogation
EVERETT -- The city of Everett will pay $25,000 to settle a federal lawsuit originally filed by the parents of a 13-year-old boy who, during a two-hour police interrogation in 2005, confessed to a sexual assault.
Date: 08/24/2011 | Local News
Traffic camera company loses suit in Bellingham to block city initiative
BELLINGHAM -- A judge's ruling Wednesday lets the Bellingham initiative restricting traffic-enforcement cameras proceed to the November ballot, but the camera company vowed to appeal.
Date: 08/17/2011 | Local News
Retired Superior Court Judge Gerald Knight, who earned respect in courtroom, dies at 68
EVERETT -- The verdict was in on his first jury trial as a Snohomish County Superior Court judge.A dog bite had landed a man in legal trouble and jurors had reached a decision.
Date: 08/16/2011 | Local News
Court overturns Obama-threat convictions
SAN FRANCISCO -- A Southern California man who urged readers of an online message board to "shoot the n-----" two weeks before the 2008 presidential election, and said Barack Obama "will have a 50 cal in the head soon," was protected by freedom of speech, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Date: 07/21/2011 | Nation & World
San Francisco to shutter courtrooms, lay off 200
SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco Superior Court announced Monday that it's laying off more than 40 percent of its staff and shuttering 25 courtrooms because of budget cuts.
Date: 07/18/2011 | Nation & World
Search goes on to complete county judge display
Missing: two Snohomish County judges.Well, not exactly.
Date: 07/17/2011 | Local News
Oregon judge signs order for mental evaluation of death row inmate
SALEM, Ore. -- A judge has formally ordered the Oregon Health Authority to evaluate the mental capacity of inmate Gary Haugen, who has said he wants to give up further appeals and proceed with his execution.
Date: 07/11/2011 | Northwest
Appeals court orders review in death penalty case of Idaho serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan
BOISE, Idaho -- The life of a man convicted of kidnapping, torture and murder might be spared after an appeals court has ruled that Joseph Edward Duncan III should have been given a competency hearing before he was allowed to waive his appeal.
Date: 07/11/2011 | Nation & World
Mistrial declared after juror overheard saying he wanted to punch 'Barefoot Bandit' lawyer in nose
PORT ORCHARD -- A mistrial has been declared in a Kitsap County drug case after a juror was overheard expressing a desire to punch prominent Seattle defense attorney John Henry Browne in the nose.
Date: 07/11/2011 | Northwest
Man sentenced to 13 years for 'honor killing' of his brother
EVERETT -- Mehdi Matin lugged around his heartbreak for more than two decades before exacting revenge through violent blows.
Date: 06/15/2011 | Local News
Lawyers target Calif. gay marriage ruling by gay judge
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge's long-term relationship with another man was the subject of an unprecedented court hearing Monday that sparked sharp exchanges about whether the now-retired jurist had a duty to divulge whether he wanted to marry his own gay partner before he struck down...
Date: 06/13/2011 | Nation & World
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