![]() ![]() The Calderas said the plan was Martinez's idea. They were arrested 90 minutes later because the vehicle they had stolen from Hanses - a Yukon Denali - was equipped with a dashboard tracking device. The brothers did not hurt Hanses, but they tied him up and robbed his house in a gated subdivision. Martinez was accused of hiring two brothers, Manuel and Noe Caldera, and giving them the guns to rob and kill Tom Hanses, a co-owner of Washington Fruit and Produce, where Martinez was a human-resources manager. The January trial against Alexander Martinez was his last here. Attorney's Office in Seattle, had been Yakima County's prosecutor for 27 years. ![]() ![]() Sullivan, now the chief of the criminal division for the U.S. Jeff Sullivan, who was the Yakima County prosecutor at the time, said yesterday: 'I did not intentionally withhold this information. "The state's misconduct prejudiced the defendant's right to effective assistance of counsel," Judge Susan Hahn wrote in her ruling. YAKIMA - In a blistering decision, a Yakima County Superior Court judge has accused the county prosecutor's office of misconduct and dismissed a murder-conspiracy case it was hoping to try a second time.Īt issue is whether the prosecutor's office withheld evidence that could have undermined its case against a man accused of plotting what would end up as a botched hit on a Yakima fruit baron last year. ![]()
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