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YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state appellate court has upheld the conviction of a man found guilty of killing the caretaker at a gun club in 2014. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports 28-year-old Luis Anguiano argued prosecutors wrongfully used evidence of a prior burglary to prejudice jurors against him, but a three-judge panel found that the court correctly concluded that the evidence establi

MONROE (AP) — The state Court of Appeals has overturned the conviction of a former state prison inmate who attacked a corrections officer in 2012. Jimi Hamilton was sentenced to life behind bars without the possibility of release after a Snohomish County Superior Court jury convicted him in 2014 of second-degree assault at the corrections facility in Monroe...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The state Supreme Court has affirmed the conviction of a teen who had told his therapist that he thought about taking a gun to school to shoot students who had teased him. In an 8-1 ruling issued Thursday, the court rejected arguments that a ruling from the U...