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IPerior court roundup:
ple pleads in drug cases
married couple pied
drug charges Monday in
,unty Superior Court.
Shaw III, 37,
Louise McCord,
1911 Washington Street,
applied for a marriage li-
and were married several
they appeared be-
James Sawyer in con-
charges filed in con-
with a lab used to "cook"
Phetamine, an illegal
Prosecutor Reinhold
McCord, also known
Shaw, was offered a
In which the charges against
be reduced if she testi-
against her husband. Mr.
y hoped that Me-
get a reduced sen-
that she could take care
children.
PLED guilty to five
I in two separate cases. In
Was charged after being
near Taylor Towne on
10 with manufacturing
"I was in a
which was stopped by
in which the troopers
aanufacturing equipment
to making meth-
he wrote in a
that accompanied his
other case concerned
of last fall, when a confi-
informant worked with
officers to stage
of controlled buys at 880
Road. Schuetz charged
two counts of deliver-
)hetamine, one count
material in lieu of an
rug and one count of
g methampheta-
raethamphetamines to a
informant. I also pro-
duced methamphetamine," Shaw
wrote in a statement that accom-
panied his guilty pleas.
He faces up to 10 years in pris-
on and a fine of up to $20,000.
Schuetz said he will recommend
that the sentences on all five
counts be served at the same time
and that the fine be no more than
$3,000. He also promised that he
won't bring more charges against
Shaw based on information he
has obtained.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY Ron
Sergi asked the court not to order
a presentence investigation. "He
wants to get out of the Mason
County Jail sooner rather than
later," Sergi said. Judge Sawyer
denied this request, ordered a
presentence investigation and
said Shaw should be held in the
jail until he is sentenced on June
3.
McCord, now Mrs. Shaw, pled
guilty to conspiracy to manufac-
ture methamphetamine and bail
jumping. The pleas were made af-
ter Schuetz reduced the charges
against her.
"I agreed with another to take
a substantial step to manufacture
a controlled substance," she said
in a statement that accompanied
her guilty plea. McCord rented
the house on Mikkelsen Road and
was present at one of the con-
trolled buys, according to a state-
ment of the allegations against
her.
The bail jumping charge was
filed after she failed to appear for
a superior court hearing on the
drug charge. Defense attorney
Robert Brungardt asked that she
be released on personal recogni-
zance.
"My client has no criminal
history," Brungardt said. How-
ever, the judge did note that the
newlyweds still face charges filed
in Pierce Count: Superior Court.
Sawyer released McCord on per-
sonal recognizance pending sen-
tencing on July 1.
Sergi also asked asked Sawyer
to lift the no-contact order be-
tween Shaw and McCord. The
judge, after dealing with the
charges against McCord, lifted
the no-contact order.
IN SUPERIOR court pro-
ceedings on Wednesday, May 12,
Jerry Ralph Hilding, 37, of
719 North Eighth Street, Shelton,
was identified in connection with
an investigation of two counts
each of residential burglary and
malicious mischief in the second
degree.
Judge Sawyer appointed Sergi
to be his attorney and scheduled
arraignment for May 27. Until
then Hilding will be held on
$2,500 bail. The allegations in-
volve the use of alcohol. "He
doesn't deny drinking but this is
the first time that this has ever
happened to him," Sergi said.
Sawyer noted that Hilding has
failed to appear at a number of
court hearings. He ordered him to
stay away from drugs and alco-
hol.
"I made a mistake. I have nev-
er in my life burglarized any-
where," Hilding said.
IN PROCEEDINGS on Fri-
day, Richard A. Carmel Sr.,
38, of 30138 408th Street, Enum-
claw appeared in court after his
arrest last Thursday on a
$150,000 bench warrant.
The warrant was signed by
Sawyer on March 9 after Carmel
failed to appear for trial on charg-
es of possession of methampheta-
mine and possession of stolen
property in the second degree. He
was arrested last September 13
at what officers called a "working
meth lab" at Camp Spillman.
Sawyer scheduled a pretrial
hearing for June 23 and trial for
the jury term that begins July 6.
finds Kent man guilty
having firearm unlawfully
Orr, 33, of 19642 84th
was found guilty
a Mason County Supe-
trial of unlawful pos-
L0f a firearm in the second
driving with license
in the third degree.
firearm charge was filed
Orr was a convicted felon
Was arrested in Belfair
lets in his pocket and a
the seat of his girl-
Judge James Sawyer
sentencing for June 17.
Prosecutor Reinhold
Called Trooper Ryan Ur-
the Washington State
the state's first and only
tt the jury trial. He said
patrol at 1:45 a.m. on
1998 when he spotted
)ala on Highway
SAID he
car because it didn't
that's required to il-
the rear license plate.
he hit the emergency
Put his spotlight on the
car.
the driver switch seats
seat passenger," he
they did it because Orr didn't
have a driver's license. He said he
asked Orr if there were any guns
in the car and was told there was
one under the driver's seat.
"UNDER THE front seat on
the passenger side I located a
Ruger .357 revolver. It was load-
ed with five rounds of amunition,"
he said.
Urlacher said he took a Polar-
oid photograph of the gun. He
then identified the gun and the
bullets for the court and Schuetz
asked that they be placed into ev-
idence.
Under cross examination by
defense attorney Ron Sergi he
testified that there were two more
people in the back of that car and
that they too were making "fur-
tive movements." He also testified
that he did not handle the wea-
pon in a way that would preserve
any possible fingerprints.
Urhlacher also told the court
he found three bottles of beer in
the car. He said neither of the two
passengers in the back, a male
and a female, had a driver's li-
cense and that the passenger in
the front smelled of alcohol.
Schuetz then rested the state's
said he approached case.
the passenger's side,
door and placed Orr FOR THE defense, Sergi
for obstructing jus- called Kathy J. Luedert to the
after he put him stand. She said she is Orr's girl-
and read him his friend and the owner of the Chevy
Orr and found he was driving that night. She
of .357 amunition in said it was his idea to switch
pocket, seats when the trooper hit his
said he asked Orr emergency lights.
and the passenger Luedert testified that she said
and was told that she's never seen Orr with a fire-
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arm and she didn't know that he
had bullets in his pocket that
night. Sergi then rested for the
defense.
"The most damaging part of
this case is that Mr. Orr had five
rounds of amunition in his pock-
et. Well, he's not charged with
having amunition in his pocket,"
Sergi said in his closing state-
ment.
Sergi suggested that one of the
passengers put the gun under the
seat while they were "jostling
around" in the car. He said Orr
"was more worried about switch-
ing seats and did not have an op-
portunity to put that firearm un-
der the seat."
Wheelies for the food bank
Fred Meyer food manager Jim Colo, left, and
Wayne Martin show off some maneuvers planned
for the store's market basket drill team under the
bemused eye of Saints' Pantry food bank director
Steve Helt. Martin says he'll work the crowd for
contributions of food to add to what Fred Meyer is
collecting all week for the food bank. The store
will match contributions pound for pound, so
those planning to watch the parade are asked to
bring a nonperishable food item. "We want to fill
those baskets. We want those team members to
really sweat," Martin claims.
Port commission roundup:
Port extends its
auditor contract
The Port of Shelton Commis-
sion voted on Wednesday, May 12
to extend George Fox's contract
as auditor to a full year.
The action came after an exec-
utive session that followed the
commission's regular business
meeting. Fox is also employed by
the Port of Olympia. In recent
months he has been working to
revamp the Port of Shelton's in-
ternal accounting system. "He's a
breath of fresh air. It's really been
great to have George on board,"
Chairman Henry Trusler said.
Trusler said Fox will be paid
Shelter board
to meet tonight
The Mason County Shelter
Board of Directors will hold its
annum meeting at 7:30 tonight,
May 20, at the Alpine Way Re-
tirement Apartments.
The public is welcome at the
meeting, and directions to the
meeting room will be posted at
the retirement residence at 900
Alpine Way, just off North 13th
Street.
$4,000 per month for 400 hours of
work in a year. Trusler said that's
about the same sort of pay given
to former auditor Richard Thorn-
brue.
"He's really getting some good
stuff for us,' Trusler said of Fox.
"We are impressed with him and
we like what he's doing. It's some
money but it's money well spent."
In other business at last week's
meeting, the port commission:
Told resident Marv Faughen-
der that the port is trying to
reach an agreement with Blue
Skies Skydiving Adventures, a
skydiving operation based at San-
derson Field. "We are in lease ne-
gotiations," Trusler said.
Voted 3-0 in favor of a resolu-
tion offering to cooperate with the
City of Shelton in plans for a rec-
reational corridor linking down-
town to port property that is now
the site of the Shelton Yacht
Club.
The city recently acquired the
site of David Shelton's pear
orchard. "We're offering to be co-
operative and creative for the
benefit of the community," Com-
missioner George Radich said.
IN HIS CLOSING statement
Schuetz tried to cast doubt on
Luedert's credibility. "She was in-
volved from the get-go in trying to
pull the wool over the trooper's
eyes about who was driving," he
said.
Jurors were Frank Kirgan,
Jack Zorn, George Guy, Phillip
Franklin, Denise Beckwith, Dona-
lo Fawver, Jeanne Johnson,
Charles Williams, Garry Yuan,
Inmate tried, sentenced for
Danilo Salido, 22, was sen-
tenced Thursday in Mason Coun-
ty Superior Court to 101/2 months
in prison or jail for two counts of
custodial assault against guards
at the Washington Corrections
Center.
Salido is serving time at WCC
for murder in the second degree.
Judge James Sawyer said he
should start serving the sentence
for custodial assault when he's
done serving time for murder.
The judge said it would be best
that he serve the time at WCC
but that the state could transfer
him to the Mason County Jail.
His sentencing followed a jury
trial with testimony from Salido
and two prison guards about
events that occurred on January
15, 1998 in the Intensive Manage-
ment Unit at WCC. He was ac-
cused of throwing a cup full of fec-
es and urine at two guards who
were picking up his lunch tray.
SALIDO ADMITTED to the
deed but said at sentencing that
he was provoked by a guard who
made "disgusting homosexual re-
marks toward me." He claimed
the behavior of Cornelius Davis
amounted to sexual harassment.
"The Department of Correc-
tions is full of hypocrites who are
sworn to uphold the law and then
break it themselves," he said.
Salido read from a statement
he had written for the court. =I'm
suffering enough as it is, being
locked in a cage and dehuman-
ized," he said.
Defense attorney Ron Sergi
said a few words on his client's
at the wrong time. He didn't pull
the trigger."
JUDGE SAWYER conceeded
that prison can be a dehumaniz-
ing place but said Salido's time
there will be harder if he worries
about what other people say. =The
inmate next to you isn't going to
be doing the time so he'll be more
than happy to egg you on," he
said.
Sawyer ordered him to pay
$500 to the crime victims' fund,
$350 towards his attorney's fees
and $210 in court costs.
The sentence came after a one-
day trial held on May 12. Deputy
Prosecutor Amber Finlay called
Rokesi Taito, a corrections officer
at WCC, to the stand as the first
witness for the state.
Taito said that the Intensive
Management Unit is a place for
prisoners who have gotten into
trouble or who don't get along
with the other inmates, He said
that he and Cornelius Davis,
another guard, were picking up
lunch trays in the IUM when the
incident occurred. =As we opened
the cuff pert to take the tray out
inmate Salido threw some feces
and urine at us," he said.
Taito said he got soiled on his
left-hand side. Finlay asked him
how he could tell that it was bodi-
ly waste. "It was a pretty nasty
smell. You could tell right off," he
said.
Taito said they shut the cuff
port and went to the sergeant's
office to report the incident. He
said that a videotape was made of
behalf. "Given the environment of them standing in their soiled uni-
IMU and the prison system there forms. He said he was concerned
may have been some truth in about the possibility of contract-
Danilo's testimony. That doesn't
excuse what he did," Sergi said.
ing hepatitis or the virus that
causes Acquired Immune Defi-
ciency Syndrome.
CROSS-EXAMINED by Ser-
gi, he said he heard Salido and
Davis talking to one another but
that he didn't hear the guard call
the inmate any names. "I just
heard them talking but I didn't
hear no kind of names. It was too
loud, too noisy," Taito said.
He also said he thought Salido
had aimed the waste at Davis. "I
didn't think it was directed to-
wards me," he said. "It bounced
off of Davis towards me."
Finlay then called Davis to the
stand. He said the inmate was be-
ing verbally abusive. "During
feeding, inmate Salido started
calling me a bunch of names," Da-
vis said.
Davis said he ignored these re-
marks, told Salido that he had
met Salido's mother in the visit-
ing area and threatened to tell
her about what a hard time the
inmate was giving him. He said
Salido threw the waste on his
chest and arm. Finlay then
played a videotape of the correc-
tions officers standing in a hall
with soiled uniforms.
Under cross-examination by
Sergi, Davis said that he never
called Salido a "punk" or a "bitch"
and and never made a remark
about him wearing a skirt. He
said he was trained not to "feed
into the games" of the men
housed in the IMU and that he
never said anything bad about
Salido's mother.
"IT WOULDN'T BE profes-
sional to say anything derogatory
about an inmate's family and it's
nothing that I practice. What I
assault
would say is that people would
probably get upset if you talk
about their family," Davis said.
Finlay then rested the state's
case and Sergi called Salido to the
stand. He said he's been at WCC
for three and a half years and
that he is serving time for a mur-
der that occurred in Spanaway.
He said he's been in the IMU
since February 1997 and that Da,
vis started the trouble.
"The morning that the incident
happened he had said something
about my morn. I can't remember
exactly what he had said but he
said something about my mother
and I just snapped," he said.
Salido said that Davis made
"homosexual comments" and
taunted him about wearing a T-
shirt over his underwear as the
inmates are encouraged to do.
"He said, 'He's wearing a skirt -
look,' and made a dirty little
laugh," Salido said.
HE TESTIFIED that he
didn't want the other inmates to
hear the guard's remarks. "If you
let people talk to you like that in
there they will try and test you,
try and take advantage of you,"
he said.
In cross-examination by Finlay
he admitted that he filled a cup
with urine and feces and threw it
at the guards. The defense then
rested and the case went to the
jury after instructions from Judge
Sawyer and closing statements by
Finlay and Sergi.
The jurors were Diana Wil-
liams, Barbara Bahr, George Rob-
inson, Judith Craig, Leslie Col-
son, Judy Worthy, Stephanie Boy-
sen, Uretta Lykstad, Robert Wild-
er, Rosalie Byerly, Deberah Rech-
nitz and Shirley Eacrett.
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= Thursday, May 20, 1999 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 17
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IPerior court roundup:
ple pleads in drug cases
married couple pied
drug charges Monday in
,unty Superior Court.
Shaw III, 37,
Louise McCord,
1911 Washington Street,
applied for a marriage li-
and were married several
they appeared be-
James Sawyer in con-
charges filed in con-
with a lab used to "cook"
Phetamine, an illegal
Prosecutor Reinhold
McCord, also known
Shaw, was offered a
In which the charges against
be reduced if she testi-
against her husband. Mr.
y hoped that Me-
get a reduced sen-
that she could take care
children.
PLED guilty to five
I in two separate cases. In
Was charged after being
near Taylor Towne on
10 with manufacturing
"I was in a
which was stopped by
in which the troopers
aanufacturing equipment
to making meth-
he wrote in a
that accompanied his
other case concerned
of last fall, when a confi-
informant worked with
officers to stage
of controlled buys at 880
Road. Schuetz charged
two counts of deliver-
)hetamine, one count
material in lieu of an
rug and one count of
g methampheta-
raethamphetamines to a
informant. I also pro-
duced methamphetamine," Shaw
wrote in a statement that accom-
panied his guilty pleas.
He faces up to 10 years in pris-
on and a fine of up to $20,000.
Schuetz said he will recommend
that the sentences on all five
counts be served at the same time
and that the fine be no more than
$3,000. He also promised that he
won't bring more charges against
Shaw based on information he
has obtained.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY Ron
Sergi asked the court not to order
a presentence investigation. "He
wants to get out of the Mason
County Jail sooner rather than
later," Sergi said. Judge Sawyer
denied this request, ordered a
presentence investigation and
said Shaw should be held in the
jail until he is sentenced on June
3.
McCord, now Mrs. Shaw, pled
guilty to conspiracy to manufac-
ture methamphetamine and bail
jumping. The pleas were made af-
ter Schuetz reduced the charges
against her.
"I agreed with another to take
a substantial step to manufacture
a controlled substance," she said
in a statement that accompanied
her guilty plea. McCord rented
the house on Mikkelsen Road and
was present at one of the con-
trolled buys, according to a state-
ment of the allegations against
her.
The bail jumping charge was
filed after she failed to appear for
a superior court hearing on the
drug charge. Defense attorney
Robert Brungardt asked that she
be released on personal recogni-
zance.
"My client has no criminal
history," Brungardt said. How-
ever, the judge did note that the
newlyweds still face charges filed
in Pierce Count: Superior Court.
Sawyer released McCord on per-
sonal recognizance pending sen-
tencing on July 1.
Sergi also asked asked Sawyer
to lift the no-contact order be-
tween Shaw and McCord. The
judge, after dealing with the
charges against McCord, lifted
the no-contact order.
IN SUPERIOR court pro-
ceedings on Wednesday, May 12,
Jerry Ralph Hilding, 37, of
719 North Eighth Street, Shelton,
was identified in connection with
an investigation of two counts
each of residential burglary and
malicious mischief in the second
degree.
Judge Sawyer appointed Sergi
to be his attorney and scheduled
arraignment for May 27. Until
then Hilding will be held on
$2,500 bail. The allegations in-
volve the use of alcohol. "He
doesn't deny drinking but this is
the first time that this has ever
happened to him," Sergi said.
Sawyer noted that Hilding has
failed to appear at a number of
court hearings. He ordered him to
stay away from drugs and alco-
hol.
"I made a mistake. I have nev-
er in my life burglarized any-
where," Hilding said.
IN PROCEEDINGS on Fri-
day, Richard A. Carmel Sr.,
38, of 30138 408th Street, Enum-
claw appeared in court after his
arrest last Thursday on a
$150,000 bench warrant.
The warrant was signed by
Sawyer on March 9 after Carmel
failed to appear for trial on charg-
es of possession of methampheta-
mine and possession of stolen
property in the second degree. He
was arrested last September 13
at what officers called a "working
meth lab" at Camp Spillman.
Sawyer scheduled a pretrial
hearing for June 23 and trial for
the jury term that begins July 6.
finds Kent man guilty
having firearm unlawfully
Orr, 33, of 19642 84th
was found guilty
a Mason County Supe-
trial of unlawful pos-
L0f a firearm in the second
driving with license
in the third degree.
firearm charge was filed
Orr was a convicted felon
Was arrested in Belfair
lets in his pocket and a
the seat of his girl-
Judge James Sawyer
sentencing for June 17.
Prosecutor Reinhold
Called Trooper Ryan Ur-
the Washington State
the state's first and only
tt the jury trial. He said
patrol at 1:45 a.m. on
1998 when he spotted
)ala on Highway
SAID he
car because it didn't
that's required to il-
the rear license plate.
he hit the emergency
Put his spotlight on the
car.
the driver switch seats
seat passenger," he
they did it because Orr didn't
have a driver's license. He said he
asked Orr if there were any guns
in the car and was told there was
one under the driver's seat.
"UNDER THE front seat on
the passenger side I located a
Ruger .357 revolver. It was load-
ed with five rounds of amunition,"
he said.
Urlacher said he took a Polar-
oid photograph of the gun. He
then identified the gun and the
bullets for the court and Schuetz
asked that they be placed into ev-
idence.
Under cross examination by
defense attorney Ron Sergi he
testified that there were two more
people in the back of that car and
that they too were making "fur-
tive movements." He also testified
that he did not handle the wea-
pon in a way that would preserve
any possible fingerprints.
Urhlacher also told the court
he found three bottles of beer in
the car. He said neither of the two
passengers in the back, a male
and a female, had a driver's li-
cense and that the passenger in
the front smelled of alcohol.
Schuetz then rested the state's
said he approached case.
the passenger's side,
door and placed Orr FOR THE defense, Sergi
for obstructing jus- called Kathy J. Luedert to the
after he put him stand. She said she is Orr's girl-
and read him his friend and the owner of the Chevy
Orr and found he was driving that night. She
of .357 amunition in said it was his idea to switch
pocket, seats when the trooper hit his
said he asked Orr emergency lights.
and the passenger Luedert testified that she said
and was told that she's never seen Orr with a fire-
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arm and she didn't know that he
had bullets in his pocket that
night. Sergi then rested for the
defense.
"The most damaging part of
this case is that Mr. Orr had five
rounds of amunition in his pock-
et. Well, he's not charged with
having amunition in his pocket,"
Sergi said in his closing state-
ment.
Sergi suggested that one of the
passengers put the gun under the
seat while they were "jostling
around" in the car. He said Orr
"was more worried about switch-
ing seats and did not have an op-
portunity to put that firearm un-
der the seat."
Wheelies for the food bank
Fred Meyer food manager Jim Colo, left, and
Wayne Martin show off some maneuvers planned
for the store's market basket drill team under the
bemused eye of Saints' Pantry food bank director
Steve Helt. Martin says he'll work the crowd for
contributions of food to add to what Fred Meyer is
collecting all week for the food bank. The store
will match contributions pound for pound, so
those planning to watch the parade are asked to
bring a nonperishable food item. "We want to fill
those baskets. We want those team members to
really sweat," Martin claims.
Port commission roundup:
Port extends its
auditor contract
The Port of Shelton Commis-
sion voted on Wednesday, May 12
to extend George Fox's contract
as auditor to a full year.
The action came after an exec-
utive session that followed the
commission's regular business
meeting. Fox is also employed by
the Port of Olympia. In recent
months he has been working to
revamp the Port of Shelton's in-
ternal accounting system. "He's a
breath of fresh air. It's really been
great to have George on board,"
Chairman Henry Trusler said.
Trusler said Fox will be paid
Shelter board
to meet tonight
The Mason County Shelter
Board of Directors will hold its
annum meeting at 7:30 tonight,
May 20, at the Alpine Way Re-
tirement Apartments.
The public is welcome at the
meeting, and directions to the
meeting room will be posted at
the retirement residence at 900
Alpine Way, just off North 13th
Street.
$4,000 per month for 400 hours of
work in a year. Trusler said that's
about the same sort of pay given
to former auditor Richard Thorn-
brue.
"He's really getting some good
stuff for us,' Trusler said of Fox.
"We are impressed with him and
we like what he's doing. It's some
money but it's money well spent."
In other business at last week's
meeting, the port commission:
Told resident Marv Faughen-
der that the port is trying to
reach an agreement with Blue
Skies Skydiving Adventures, a
skydiving operation based at San-
derson Field. "We are in lease ne-
gotiations," Trusler said.
Voted 3-0 in favor of a resolu-
tion offering to cooperate with the
City of Shelton in plans for a rec-
reational corridor linking down-
town to port property that is now
the site of the Shelton Yacht
Club.
The city recently acquired the
site of David Shelton's pear
orchard. "We're offering to be co-
operative and creative for the
benefit of the community," Com-
missioner George Radich said.
IN HIS CLOSING statement
Schuetz tried to cast doubt on
Luedert's credibility. "She was in-
volved from the get-go in trying to
pull the wool over the trooper's
eyes about who was driving," he
said.
Jurors were Frank Kirgan,
Jack Zorn, George Guy, Phillip
Franklin, Denise Beckwith, Dona-
lo Fawver, Jeanne Johnson,
Charles Williams, Garry Yuan,
Inmate tried, sentenced for
Danilo Salido, 22, was sen-
tenced Thursday in Mason Coun-
ty Superior Court to 101/2 months
in prison or jail for two counts of
custodial assault against guards
at the Washington Corrections
Center.
Salido is serving time at WCC
for murder in the second degree.
Judge James Sawyer said he
should start serving the sentence
for custodial assault when he's
done serving time for murder.
The judge said it would be best
that he serve the time at WCC
but that the state could transfer
him to the Mason County Jail.
His sentencing followed a jury
trial with testimony from Salido
and two prison guards about
events that occurred on January
15, 1998 in the Intensive Manage-
ment Unit at WCC. He was ac-
cused of throwing a cup full of fec-
es and urine at two guards who
were picking up his lunch tray.
SALIDO ADMITTED to the
deed but said at sentencing that
he was provoked by a guard who
made "disgusting homosexual re-
marks toward me." He claimed
the behavior of Cornelius Davis
amounted to sexual harassment.
"The Department of Correc-
tions is full of hypocrites who are
sworn to uphold the law and then
break it themselves," he said.
Salido read from a statement
he had written for the court. =I'm
suffering enough as it is, being
locked in a cage and dehuman-
ized," he said.
Defense attorney Ron Sergi
said a few words on his client's
at the wrong time. He didn't pull
the trigger."
JUDGE SAWYER conceeded
that prison can be a dehumaniz-
ing place but said Salido's time
there will be harder if he worries
about what other people say. =The
inmate next to you isn't going to
be doing the time so he'll be more
than happy to egg you on," he
said.
Sawyer ordered him to pay
$500 to the crime victims' fund,
$350 towards his attorney's fees
and $210 in court costs.
The sentence came after a one-
day trial held on May 12. Deputy
Prosecutor Amber Finlay called
Rokesi Taito, a corrections officer
at WCC, to the stand as the first
witness for the state.
Taito said that the Intensive
Management Unit is a place for
prisoners who have gotten into
trouble or who don't get along
with the other inmates, He said
that he and Cornelius Davis,
another guard, were picking up
lunch trays in the IUM when the
incident occurred. =As we opened
the cuff pert to take the tray out
inmate Salido threw some feces
and urine at us," he said.
Taito said he got soiled on his
left-hand side. Finlay asked him
how he could tell that it was bodi-
ly waste. "It was a pretty nasty
smell. You could tell right off," he
said.
Taito said they shut the cuff
port and went to the sergeant's
office to report the incident. He
said that a videotape was made of
behalf. "Given the environment of them standing in their soiled uni-
IMU and the prison system there forms. He said he was concerned
may have been some truth in about the possibility of contract-
Danilo's testimony. That doesn't
excuse what he did," Sergi said.
ing hepatitis or the virus that
causes Acquired Immune Defi-
ciency Syndrome.
CROSS-EXAMINED by Ser-
gi, he said he heard Salido and
Davis talking to one another but
that he didn't hear the guard call
the inmate any names. "I just
heard them talking but I didn't
hear no kind of names. It was too
loud, too noisy," Taito said.
He also said he thought Salido
had aimed the waste at Davis. "I
didn't think it was directed to-
wards me," he said. "It bounced
off of Davis towards me."
Finlay then called Davis to the
stand. He said the inmate was be-
ing verbally abusive. "During
feeding, inmate Salido started
calling me a bunch of names," Da-
vis said.
Davis said he ignored these re-
marks, told Salido that he had
met Salido's mother in the visit-
ing area and threatened to tell
her about what a hard time the
inmate was giving him. He said
Salido threw the waste on his
chest and arm. Finlay then
played a videotape of the correc-
tions officers standing in a hall
with soiled uniforms.
Under cross-examination by
Sergi, Davis said that he never
called Salido a "punk" or a "bitch"
and and never made a remark
about him wearing a skirt. He
said he was trained not to "feed
into the games" of the men
housed in the IMU and that he
never said anything bad about
Salido's mother.
"IT WOULDN'T BE profes-
sional to say anything derogatory
about an inmate's family and it's
nothing that I practice. What I
assault
would say is that people would
probably get upset if you talk
about their family," Davis said.
Finlay then rested the state's
case and Sergi called Salido to the
stand. He said he's been at WCC
for three and a half years and
that he is serving time for a mur-
der that occurred in Spanaway.
He said he's been in the IMU
since February 1997 and that Da,
vis started the trouble.
"The morning that the incident
happened he had said something
about my morn. I can't remember
exactly what he had said but he
said something about my mother
and I just snapped," he said.
Salido said that Davis made
"homosexual comments" and
taunted him about wearing a T-
shirt over his underwear as the
inmates are encouraged to do.
"He said, 'He's wearing a skirt -
look,' and made a dirty little
laugh," Salido said.
HE TESTIFIED that he
didn't want the other inmates to
hear the guard's remarks. "If you
let people talk to you like that in
there they will try and test you,
try and take advantage of you,"
he said.
In cross-examination by Finlay
he admitted that he filled a cup
with urine and feces and threw it
at the guards. The defense then
rested and the case went to the
jury after instructions from Judge
Sawyer and closing statements by
Finlay and Sergi.
The jurors were Diana Wil-
liams, Barbara Bahr, George Rob-
inson, Judith Craig, Leslie Col-
son, Judy Worthy, Stephanie Boy-
sen, Uretta Lykstad, Robert Wild-
er, Rosalie Byerly, Deberah Rech-
nitz and Shirley Eacrett.
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