Pierce County Superior Court Judge since appointed in 1999. Ran unopposed in 2000 and 2004.
Was rated "minimally qualified," one step above "not qualified," by the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association when she ran for office in 1999.
Role in this story
Presided over the third trial of Brian Eggleston
Said to Brian at sentencing "I know in my heart ...
Other notable trials
In 1997, Jacob Korum and four friends posed as sheriff’s deputies and robbed five drug dealers’ homes, holding guns on people and tying up children. After their arrests, the five made plea deals with prosecutors and got sentences between six and 23 years. Two years into his 11-year sentence, Korum withdrew his guilty plea and decided to take his chances at trial. Prosecutors doubled the charges against him, and Korum ended up convicted of 30 crimes in 2001 and Judge Arend sentenced him to 100 years in prison. In 2006 his sentence was changed to 17 1/2 years after the Court of Appeals overturned 10 kidnapping convictions.
Sided with the Washington state Republican Party in deciding to block the counting of more than 700 uncounted ballots in the highly controversial 2004 governor's race. Arend's ruling was overturned by a higher court. See story.
Judges
Judge Leonard Kruse
Background
Kitsap County Superior Court Judge, now retired
Role in this story
Presided over the second trial of Brian Eggleston
Said "Quite honestly this sounds like mumbo jumbo," referring to Rod Englert's estimate of the timing of the shooting.
Background
Thurston County Superior Court Judge 1990-2012
Before becoming a judge, he was an attorney practicing in Olympia for 20 years
Role in this story
Presided over the first trial of Brian Eggleston
Other Notable Trials
In 2000, ruledthat the North Thurston County School District violated the constitutional rights of a student who was suspended for ridiculing a school administrator on his personal web site.
In 2002, ordered an Olympia man to permanently shut down a website he used to promote a cancer treatment with no proven record of success
In 2004, sentenced Monica Ginn to three years in prison for growing marijuana, despite claims that she did so for medicinal reasons. The jury was not allowed to hear about her medical conditions because he said that she did not have proper documentation from her doctor. He accidentally referred to Ginn as "the patient." She was allowed to continue using the drug as long as she didn't grow it.
Division II of the state court of appeals in Tacoma 1994-2010
Cowlitz County prosecutor 1986-1994
Passed away in 2014
Role in this story
In 2001, a member of the court that ruled that Brian didn't get a fair trial in the first and second trials and ordered the case back to Pierce County for a third trial
During the appeal hearing, he criticized the search warrant saying, "I've never seen anything quite so sloppy as this." He questioned if there was enough informatoin to justify searching Eggleston's home.
