High Profile Cases

The Spokane County Prosecutor’s office handles about 20,000 cases a year, involving over 47,000 individual charges*. These cases involve adult and juvenile defendants, and include many serious crimes such as murder, child abuse and molestation, gang shootings, rape, and bank robbery to name a few. The following are summaries of some of the high profile cases that have been recently handled by this office.

* Based on 2007 statistics.