SEATTLE — Kyle Ater remembers the three-letter chalk message left on the floor of his Orcas Island grocery store after it was burglarized for the second time by the Barefoot Bandit. Next to cartoonish drawings of footprints was written, “C-YA!” Nearly two years later, that prophesy is coming true. Ater said he’d be there in Island County Superior Court on Friday when Colton Harris-Moore, now 20, is expected to plead guilty to dozens of felony charges stemming from a crime spree that took him — in stolen boats, cars and planes — all the way to the Bahamas. Read full article > >

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Kris Humphries is seeking an annulment of his marriage to Kim Kardashian . The reason? Fraud. People and TMZ reported this afternoon that the NBA player and soon-to-be-former Mr. Kardashian filed papers in L.A. Superior Court to have the less-than-two-month marriage annulled. In the documents, Humphries checked a box marked “nullity of voidable marriage” and said the basis for the nullity is “fraud,” a box the American public metaphorically checked weeks ago after assessing the short-lived Kardashian-Humphries marriage . Read full article > >

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The man charged in the fatal beating of his socialite wife in Georgetown fired his attorneys on Friday and decided to represent himself on the murder charges. At a hearing in D.C. Superior Court Judge Russell F. Canan allowed Albrecht Gero Muth, 47, to serve as his own lawyer. In lengthy ramblings, Muth also told the judge he believed the Aug. 11 death of his wife of 22 years, Viola Drath, 91, was actually a “hit” ordered by Iranian agents. Read full article > >

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Viola Drath’s husband requests to represent himself in trial; says wife was killed as part of Iranian hit

The 10-year-old Prince George’s County boy who was stranded in a Children’s National Medical Center psychiatric ward for eight weeks has been moved to a long-term-care facility near Philadelphia. At a hearing Thursday before D.C. Superior Court Senior Judge Eugene N. Hamilton, an attorney for Children’s Hospital said the hospital paid for an ambulance to take the boy — along with his medication and paperwork — to the facility. His mother accompanied him, according to Rhea Yo, the boy’s court-appointed attorney. Read full article > >

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Two District men were found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder while armed in the 2008 shooting deaths of three men in the Northeast Washington neighborhood of Trinidad. After three days of deliberations, a D.C. Superior Court jury found William N. McCorkle, 26, and Andre Clinkscale Jr., 25, guilty in the slayings of Duane Hough, Johnny Jeter and Anthony Mincey. The May 31, 2008, shootings sent authorities scrambling to set up neighborhood security checkpoints that were later ruled unconstitutional. Read full article > >

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Two Trinidad area men found guilty of first-degree murder in 2008 triple fatal shooting

The son of D.C. Council member Marion Barry was sentenced to 18 months of supervised probation for drug possession Tuesday, avoiding prison time after pleading guilty in July. D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin originally sentenced Marion Christopher Barry, 31, to six months in prison for a felony PCP charge and 90 days for a misdemeanor marijuana charge but suspended the sentences and ordered Barry to drug and grief counseling. Barry’s mother, Effi, died from acute myeloid leukemia at 63 in 2007; he was arrested in May. Read full article > >

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A D.C. Superior Court judge went beyond sentencing guidelines Friday and ordered a Hyattsville man to serve 21 years in prison in the planned robbery of an alleged drug dealer that resulted in the accidental shooting death of one of his co-conspirators during the botched heist. Despite a jury’s guilty verdict in July, Raylen D. Wilkerson, 34, repeatedly told Judge William M. Jackson that he had no role in planning the Dec. 1, 2009, robbery in Southeast Washington. Read full article > >

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A D.C. Superior Court jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on whether Roderick Ridley fatally stabbed his former girlfriend, Tiffany Gates, in 2008. However, the jury found Ridley guilty of burglary, carrying a concealed weapon and multiple counts of obstruction of justice and making threats. Despite the lack of a murder conviction, Judge Gerald Fisher sentenced Ridley to 74 1 / 2 years in prison in connection with Gates’s slaying, saying he thinks that Ridley, 34, stabbed his former girlfriend. Fisher called the case one of the most horrible he had heard in his courtroom. Read full article > >

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D.C. man gets 741 / 2 years in connection with fatal stabbing of ex-girlfriend

A D.C. Superior Court judge sentenced a Maryland mother of four to 25 years in prison Friday for fatally stabbing another woman last year because she thought the victim was dating her ex-boyfriend. Prosecutors had asked Judge Gerald I. Fisher to sentence Ramona Gray, 31, of District Heights to 26 years after Gray pleaded guilty to the Aug. 31 attack on Shemese A. Grant, 31. Grant was stabbed 18 times in the back in a parking lot outside a deli in the 1700 block of Good Hope Road SE. At a previous hearing, prosecutors showed still photographs from a surveillance camera in the deli that showed Gray waiting inside, looking out the front door and then holding a knife, which Gray had pulled out of her purse, a witness in the store told police. Read full article > >

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Sidwell Friends School is being sued for $10 million for allegedly failing to supervise a staff psychologist who was having an affair with the married mother of a 5-year-old student he was counseling. The woman’s husband and girl’s father, Arthur G. “Terry” Newmyer, made the allegations in a lawsuit filed Thursday in D.C. Superior Court, in which he also said that he had alerted the school to the alleged affair over the course of a year. In his lawsuit, Newmyer said his daughter suffered emotional distress as the affair became known among teachers and other parents. Read full article > >

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Three of the five men charged with murder and other crimes related to a series of July 2008 drive-by shootings in the District’s Trinidad neighborhood were acquitted by a D.C. Superior Court jury Tuesday.

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D.C. officials have spent more than $5 million to renovate the Superior Court complex, including building a glass facade, installing new landscaping, adding high-tech courtrooms and state-of-the-art, X-ray machines to screen for weapons.

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A lawyer with the District’s Public Defender Service has petitioned a D.C. Superior Court judge to order D.C. police to search a Virginia landfill for the remains of slain teenager Latisha M. Frazier. Authorities had said they would not authorize a search because it would cost more than $1 million and could jeopardize the safety of the recovery officers.

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Veteran by veteran, Orange County, California, Superior Court Judge Wendy Lindley is dispensing justice with tough talk and a little cheerleading to the former servicemen who’ve returned from war in Iraq or Afghanistan. The vets are now convicted civilians in her court.

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Veteran by veteran, Orange County, California, Superior Court Judge Wendy Lindley is dispensing justice with tough talk and a little cheerleading to the former servicemen who’ve returned from war in Iraq or Afghanistan. The vets are now convicted civilians in her court.

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Vet courts seek to rehab outside jail