Effort to Showtime for Sports Hub Save Tenino Public Gets First Look at Massive New Facility in Centralia / Main 11 Park / Main 12 $1 Mid-Week Edition Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Finally a Conviction, and Now an Appeal CLAIMS: Rick Riffe Appeal 1985 double homicide of Ed and tiple appeals from the same de- Minnie Maurin. fendant. SLERT CONVICTION UPHELD BY SUPREME COURT Just One of 77 Cases Ten months later, 54-year- Prosecutor Jonathan Meyer By Stephanie Schendel Moving Through Process old Riffe still maintains his in- said another 48 cases are await- nocence, and his appeal of the ing decisions either from the
[email protected] By Stephanie Schendel convictions has begun its slow state Supreme Court or a court Convicted murderer Kenneth Slert will not be retried for a
[email protected] crawl through the appeals pro- of appeals. fourth time, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled Thurs- cess. If a defendant in a criminal day morning. A little more than a year ago, Riffe is one of about 29 pend- case takes the case to trial and is Slert has been convicted of murder three different times in a jury convicted Rick A. Riffe ing felony appellate cases for the convicted, like Riffe, most try to of murder, kidnapping, robbery Lewis County Prosecutor’s Of- please see SLERT, page Main 14 and burglary for his role in the fice. That number counts mul- please see APPEALS, page Main 14 A Call to Action Hopes for a Healthier Lewis County at Community Forum Stephanie Schendel /
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