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Federal Way court asks committee to advance grant requests to process ~800 vacated drug convictions
Summary
Municipal court staff and Judge Danielle Havens asked the committee to approve applying for state grants to process roughly 800 convictions affected by State v. Blake, seeking starter funds and additional 2027 support to vacate convictions and reimburse people who paid fines.
Court administrator Mariam Olsson and Presiding Judge Danielle Havens told the committee the city must accelerate processing vacated drug-possession convictions tied to State v. Blake to take advantage of dwindling state funds and to avoid potential local liability.
"Federal Way has around 800 cases that need to be vacated and any money paid refunded," Olsson said, describing a two-pot state funding structure: one fund for courts' extraordinary processing costs and another for…
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