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Omar Gamez with his niece Gabriela. (Photo courtesy Edmonds Municipal Court)
Edmonds Municipal Court Probation Officer Omar Gamez was named Probation Officer of The Year by the Washington State Misdemeanant Probation Association (MPA), an honor given to one probation officer each year from across the entire state. The MPA is an organization focused on increasing the quality, continuity and effectiveness of probation services for people convicted of misdemeanors within Washington state.
Gamez has served as a probation officer at Edmonds Municipal Court since 2015 and has 15 years of experience in the probation field. While at Edmonds Municipal Court, he has assisted in creating a Community Court (learn more about that effort in our earlier story here), facilitated and implemented a Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) Program for domestic violence and repeat offenders, and organized educational events for defendants. Gamez also volunteers at St. Vincent d
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Richard Tuttle, accused in the July 14 “I Can’t Breathe” art installation defacement, appeared in Edmonds Municipal Court on Wednesday where attorneys for the defense and prosecution presented a pretrial diversion agreement for the court to consider in lieu of traditional sentencing. Clockwise from upper left, the Hon. Judge Whitney Rivera, defense attorney Patrick Feldman, prosecuting attorney Yelena Stock, and defendant Richard Tuttle.
In a Wednesday morning ruling, newly-installed Edmonds Municipal Court Judge Whitney Rivera agreed to impose the terms of a pretrial diversion agreement negotiated by the prosecution and defense teams in the case of an Edmonds man accused in the July 14 defacement of the ‘I Can’t Breathe’ art installation.
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Richard Tuttle and his attorney Patrick Feldman appeared via Zoom in Edmonds Municipal Court on Thursday as Judge Coburn’s denied the defense motion to dismiss charges.
Edmonds Municipal Court Judge Linda Coburn Thursday denied a defense motion to dismiss the case against Edmonds resident Richard Tuttle, charged with third-degree malicious mischief in the vandalism of the “I Can’t Breathe” art installation on the Civic Field fence across from the Edmonds police station.
Tuttle’s attorneys argued that charges violate the defendant’s First Amendment rights of free speech. Reasoning that the “First Amendment generally prevents government from proscribing speech or even expressive conduct because of disapproval of the ideas expressed,” they asked that the court dismiss the case.