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Article: YATES TO BE TRIED IN MORE CASES PIERCE COUNTY PROSECUTORS INSIST 2 SLAYINGS WEREN'T PART OF SPOKANE COUNTY'S PLEA DEAL.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- March 8, 2002
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Byline: ELAINE PORTERFIELD P-I reporter
TACOMA -- Confessed serial killer Robert Yates Jr. must go to trial and potentially face the death penalty in two additional cases, a judge ruled yesterday following an unusual hearing that pitted prosecutor against prosecutor.
At issue was whether Pierce County prosecutors double-crossed Yates, as defense lawyers claimed, promising him that Spokane prosecutors were speaking for them while cutting a plea deal that allowed him to escape the death penalty there in a string of murders he was believed to have committed around the state.
Pierce County prosecutors, however, adamantly insisted no such deal ...