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• Examiner describes injuries in Clay Starbuck case

  May 17, 2013 in City on Page A9 The jury spent half the day Thursday hearing testimony and looking through autopsy photos from a prolonged attack that killed Chanin Starbuck. The key testimony came from Spokane County Medical …

• Clay Starbuck trial pulls veil off private lives

  May 16, 2013 in City on Page A6 Details of secret lives spilled across a Spokane courtroom Wednesday as jurors in the murder trial of a Deer Park man heard intimate tales of suitors trying to set up …

• Detective relates exchange with Clay Starbuck

  May 14, 2013 in City on Page A5 Often smiling as he interacted with his attorneys, Clay D. Starbuck did not appear worried at the beginning of the trial that could put him in prison for the rest … 12

• Spokane jury convicts in attack on inmate

  February 27, 2013 in City on Page A6 A jury found convicted killer Michael L. West Jr. guilty Tuesday of gouging out the eyes of a fellow prison inmate, ensuring that West will remain in prison for the … 1

• Jury convicts West in eye gouging case

  February 26, 2013 in City A jury found convicted killer Michael L. West Jr. guilty today of gouging out the eyes of a fellow prison inmate, ensuring that West will remain in prison for the … 8

• Killer claims insanity in gruesome prison attack

  February 20, 2013 in City on Page A5 Convicted killer Michael L. West Jr., now standing trial for gouging out the eyes of a fellow inmate, sat in a chair Tuesday with his hands cuffed to his waist … 13

• Trial opens in gruesome eye-gouging attack

  February 19, 2013 in City Convicted killer Michael L. West Jr., now standing trial for gouging out the eyes of a fellow inmate, sat in a chair today with his hands cuffed to his waist … 15

• Tire-iron assailant found guilty

  June 13, 2012 in City on Page A5 A jury of seven men and five women convicted a Spokane man Tuesday of attacking an Iraqi refugee with a tire iron and leaving him with severe head injuries. Sentencing …

• Trial begins for gruesome tire iron attack

  June 5, 2012 in City, News A Spokane County jury today saw graphic photographs and heard descriptions of the tire-iron attack last year against a man who came to the United States as a refugee from … 4

• Slaying suspect appears in court

  February 22, 2012 in City on Page A5 A prosecutor alleged Tuesday that a man charged with killing his ex-wife also contacted his children to help back up his alibi. Clay D. Starbuck, 47, pleaded not guilty Tuesday …

• Topik acquitted in road rage trial

  April 2, 2011 in City on Page B1 When news circulated of Yakov Topik’s arrest in 2009 for robbery, assault and unlawful imprisonment, his mother received calls from friends and relatives from Ukraine questioning whether he and his … 15

• Jury convicts man in ’08 murder

  August 19, 2010 in City on Page A8 A Stevens County jury on Wednesday found Christopher H. Devlin guilty of aggravated first-degree murder for the May 2008 slaying of 52-year-old Daniel Heily, whose bullet-riddled body was found behind … 6

• Jury convicts Devlin for murder of witness

  August 18, 2010 A Stevens County jury ruled today that Christopher H. Devlin is guilty of aggravated first-degree murder in connection with a case of a man whose bullet-riddled body was found behind … 3

• Suspect, witness don’t testify in murder trial

  August 12, 2010 in City on Page A12 COLVILLE – Spokane County prosecutors ended their first-degree murder case against Christopher H. Devlin without calling the only person they believe witnessed the killing. Defense attorneys Mark Vovos and Roger …

• Devlin doesn’t testify; defense rests

  August 11, 2010 in City COLVILLE – Spokane County prosecutors ended their first-degree murder case against Christopher H. Devlin without calling the only person they believe witnessed the killing. 2

• In Olsen case, responsibility lies with prosecutor

  March 19, 2009 in City on Page A5 Sure, the jury blew the Jay Olsen verdict. Like all of you, I’m enraged that a boozed-up, off-duty cop shot Shonto Pete in the head and got away with it. 17

• Olsen cleared in shooting

  March 14, 2009 in City on Page A1 Suspended Spokane police Officer Jay Olsen was acquitted of first-degree assault and reckless endangerment Friday for shooting Shonto Pete in the head and firing four other bullets in Peaceful Valley … 17

• Competing stories emerge in Olsen trial

  March 5, 2009 in City on Page A7 Sudden threat – or deadly pursuit? Two competing versions of the February 2007 incident that ended with Shonto Pete shot in the head and assault charges against suspended police officer …

• Shot man takes stand as officer’s trial opens

  March 3, 2009 in City on Page A5 All he wanted was a ride home. But he ended up getting shot in the head by a mysterious pursuer, Shonto Pete told a Spokane jury Monday in the opening … 1