Last month in Yakima, the day before Colton Harris-Moore dodged a 10-year sentence for crimes in Washington State, his attorney John Henry Browne won an acquittal for a man named Samuel Posada who faced a life sentence without parole on a 25-year-old aggravated murder charge. Browne represented this Mexican immigrant pro bono (free). Browne waived [...]
Superior Court Judge Vickie Churchill sentenced Colton Harris-Moore (aka The Barefoot Bandit) to seven years and change on Friday afternoon, at about 3:30. The hearing covered the basic details of his life and crimes. The sentence is in middle of the allowable range. The day’s drama engaged me mightly. Why is it important that Colton [...]
Since July I’ve been on a quixotic journey trying to humanize Colton Harris-Moore’s mother Pam Kohler. In my blog posts , I didn’t want to resurrect details of dysfunction and pain in their lives. I’m not a lawyer, a teacher, a counselor or a psychiatrist, or even a legitimate journalist. I’m just a guy with a [...]
In one week Colton Harris-Moore will walk, possibly shackled, into Judge Vickie Churchill’s Superior Court in Coupeville and face the music for his notorious teenage crime-spree in Western Washington. They say he stole five airplanes, a bunch of cars, and some boats. He will be arraigned and enter a pre-arranged guilty plea to a bucket-load [...]
The Island County Prosecutor’s office told me this week that scheduling complications resulted in a delayed Superior Court hearing in which it is expected that the so-called Barefoot Bandit will plead guilty to theft crimes in Island and San Juan Counties. Mid-October is the target, but the date is not set. The prosecutor hoped for [...]
