Requiring defendants to attend court in a holding cell undermines the presumption of innocence and violates the dignity of judicial proceedings, the court said.
In 1924, Yakama citizen Jim Wallahee was convicted of killing a deer in Kittitas County. The state Supreme Court today vacated the conviction, calling it an injustice.
May 16—A century after Yakama Nation citizen Jim Wallahee killed a deer in Kittitas County on land ceded in the Treaty of 1855, the Washington Supreme Court has vacated his
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