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District Court Judge Deborah Kim Christopher said in a letter that she will resign effective April 5, 2024.

Local attorney Britt Cotter filed last week for the Lake and Sanders counties District Court seat held by embattled Judge Deborah “Kim” Christopher.

Local attorney Britt Cotter filed last week for the District Court seat currently held by embattled Judge Deborah “Kim” Christopher.

Judge Molly Owen sentenced a Polson man to one year in the Lake County Jail with all but four days already served suspended. The sentence was in accordance with a plea agreement reached Nov. 1 for Scott William Johnson, 60. Under the plea agreement, Johnson pled guilty to the amended and reduced charge of misdemeanor negligent endangerment.

Judge Molly Owen set a sentencing date of Jan. 10 for a Polson man who admitted to soliciting a 13-year-old girl for the purpose of having sex.

The trial of an East Helena woman charged with the in-custody rape of another inmate began Monday in district court.

MIKE SMITH A judge sentenced a man to 30 years at the Montana State Prison on Thursday for shooting a man at McGruff Park in Butte, but he faces up to 80 years when sentenced next week for killing a man in Billings a few days prior to the Butte crime. Colby Allen Clark, 22, of Billings, pleaded guilty to deliberate homicide in the Yellowstone County case and is to be sentenced for that Wednesday. Prosecutors are recommending 80 years, to run concurrently with the Butte sentence. In ...