Our time on Prince of Wales Island during summer 2019 was memorable. There was, for one, the sheer beauty of…
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“The evidence will show that the prosecution in this case, they’ve adopted basically a see-no reality, hear-no reality, speak-no reality…
After three weeks, the Peel jury of seventeen citizens — down from eighteen because the jury box would only seat…
After two weeks of tedious one-by-one questioning, the judge dismissed a total of three people on the grounds of financial…
Ketchikan has long been a blue-collar town and there were some expectations the Peel jury would represent its blue-collar origins.…
On learning of the defense affidavit, Mary Anne Henry rushed off a memorandum to Judge Schulz, demanding that the withdrawal…
As the grand jury presentation wore on, Troopers provided another bit of “scientific evidence.” They recruited two volunteers to walk…