Yakima County Prosecutors have decided they will not file a motion to close hearings to the media in the Kevin Harper case...the man who authorities originally charged in the Goggin murder case. prosecutors had said the new evidence could hurt Kevin Harper's right to a fair trial...
Yakima television stations have teamed with The Yakima Herald-Republic to fight the Yakima County prosecutor's request to close upcoming Kevin Harper hearings.
At one time, Harper was the main suspect in the 2011 brutal killings of the Goggin family...
Yakima County Prosecutors and Sheriff's Detectives say they will continue to investigate the murders of Bill, Pauline and Betty Goggin in their West Valley home, but currently no one in charged in the crime reported in February 2011. On Friday, Yakima County prosecutors announced that charges were dropped against Tracy Culton, the only remaining suspect...
Now that Washington voters made it clear marijuana should be legal, Yakima prosecutors are deciding what to do with open cases before Initiative-502 goes into effect.
Our news partner KIMA Action News asked, "Come December 6th, what do city prosecutors plan to do regarding marijuana cases...