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Lake Forest Park judge grants multiple dismissals for discovery defects, approves deferred findings and schedules Jan. 5 hearings
Summary
On Nov. 3, 2025, Lake Forest Park Municipal Court Judge Grant granted several defense motions to suppress or dismiss where prosecutors had not produced required discovery, approved multiple six-month deferred findings with standard conditions, and rescheduled numerous matters to Jan. 5, 2026, after defendants waived speedy time.
Judge Grant presiding in Lake Forest Park Municipal Court on Monday granted a series of defense motions to suppress or dismiss for failure to provide discovery and approved multiple deferred findings, while resetting several cases for early January.
The court convened the afternoon infraction calendar and Carmen McDonald, prosecutor for the City of Lake Forest Park, identified several camera-ticket and moving-violation matters on the calendar. Defense attorneys repeatedly raised discovery objections, citing what they described as failures under the court’s discovery rule (referred to in the record as “3.1(b)”).
Why it matters: The rulings remove several defendants from the immediate infraction calendar, either by dismissal or by placing the cases on deferred findings that suspend conviction if defendants meet conditions. The…
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