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Editors’ Note: The brutal beating of a Skagit youth in Bow on March 21, 2020 was reported by the Skagit Valley Herald and Skagit Breaking. What follows below are three perspectives of Skagit residents regarding Skagit County Prosecutor Rich Weyrich’s failure to charge the beating as a hate crime.
The rules that Weyrich references (the Washington State Court Rules of Professional Conduct, Rules 3.6 and 3.8) are intended to keep attorneys, and especially prosecutors in criminal cases, from making public statements that could prejudice the defendant’s right to a fair trial.
By Mary Kay Barbieri. As a former deputy prosecutor and chief criminal prosecutor in King County, I was surprised when Prosecutor Weyrich did not charge Trevor McCabe with a hate crime in addition to the assault and robbery charges.
Locally, Weyrich said, people can be kept in places such as Skagit Valley Hospital for up to 90 days, Weyrich said. Western State Hospital, which regional courts use to evaluate and restore defendants with mental illness, often has a weekslong wait for evaluation and monthslong wait for treatment.
But on April 30, Skagit County Superior Court Judge Brian Stiles said he had no choice but to dismiss the charges because the man is mentally unfit to stand trial and his condition is such that competency cannot be restored.