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JUDGE SHOOTS DOWN EFFORT TO QUASH WARRANT IN EVERGREEN MURDER CASE
An effort by lawyers to dismiss a po- tentially important piece of evidence in the Evergreen child-murder case has been denied by a Flathead County Dis- trict Court judge.
On April 21, Judge Heidi Ulbricht dismissed a motion by Brandon Wal- ter Lee Newberry’s attorneys to quash a warrant for the accused murderer’s cell phone that is currently in a person- al property locker inside the Flathead County Detention Center. Prosecutors want to inspect the phone’s call, text and Internet history as they prepare for the case against the man who allegedly beat his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son to death earlier this year.
Just a week after Newberry was ar- rested, the Flathead County Sheriff’s Of- fice applied for a warrant to look at his Samsung phone. Judge David Ortley, one ofthreejudgeswhohavebeenassigned to the case since it was opened on Feb. 18, approved the order.
However, Newberry’s attorneys, Greg Rapkock and Vicki Frazier, quickly filed a motion trying to get the warrant for the phone thrown out. In their mo- tion they argue that the warrant violated Newberry’s privacy and that a hearing with all involved should be held before approving it. Rapkock also wrote that the court approved the warrant with “information and perspective (that) is hand-fed to them by a biased govern- mental actor.”
Prosecutors and the defense went back and forth on the matter through March and April and this week Ulbricht sided with the County Attorney’s office. In her order she said the defense’s mo- tion to quash was warrantless and that Newberry’s constitutional rights had not been violated. Ulbricht also scolded the defense for unnecessarily attacking the court in previous briefs.
Newberry was charged with deliber- ate homicide after he allegedly beat his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son, Forrest Gro- shelle, in February. A trial has been ten- tatively set for Sept. 21.
LANGOHR, KRAMER VIE FOR FVCC TRUSTEE SEAT
Two candidates are vying for a seat on the Flathead Valley Community Col- lege Board of Trustees.
Callie Langohr, a longtime high school principal in Kalispell, faces Terry Kramer, a longtime local businessman, in the trustees election for the Flathead and Glacier high school districts in Ka- lispell.
Ballots were mailed out this week
and are due back by May 5.
The FVCC Board of Trustees is the
governing body of the college. The trust- ees are charged with the primary re- sponsibilities of establishing college pol- icies and selecting a president to admin- ister the operations of the institution. The seven members are elected by the citizens of Flathead County and serve three-year terms on a rotating basis.
Langohr has served as the principal at Glacier High School since its incep- tion in 2007. She was named the Class AA Principal of the Year in 2013. Prior to Glacier, she was principal at Flathead High School for seven years. She re- ceived a masters of education degree in career guidance and counseling at Mon- tana State University at Northern.
Langohr was named to the FVCC board in February among 10 candidates who applied for the vacant board posi- tion previously held by Ralene Sliter, who passed away Jan. 7. The remaining six trustees selected Langohr.
Kramer, who was among the candi- date pool in February, has a background in business and nonprofit work. He founded Kramer Enterprises, a residen- tial and commercial construction com- pany, 12 years ago. The Montana State Employer’s Council named Kramer En- terprises as the 2014 Employer of Choice for the entire state.
He has served as an executive board member of Flathead Valley Habitat For Humanity and as a charter board mem- ber of the Gateway Community Cen- ter. With his wife Deb, Kramer has also helped co-found the local charities Op- eration Santa and Operation Finally Home Flathead.
For more information about Kramer, visit his campaign page on Facebook.
FVCC canceled its other trustees race for the Whitefish, Columbia Falls and Bigfork school districts because in- cumbent Tom McElwain ran unopposed.
N. IDAHO SHAKEN BY TWO 4-PLUS MAGNITUDE QUAKES
Two earthquakes — a magnitude 4.1 and a 4.2 — jolted north Idaho on April 23, with residents from northeastern Washington to northwestern Montana saying they felt the tremors.
The Bonner County emergency dis- patch office in Sandpoint received no reports of injuries from either quake, a dispatcher said. The Forest Service dis- patched a crew to check out a Lakeview- area report of downed trees that was be- lieved related to the first quake, the dis- patcheradded.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 4.1 quake hit first, at about 7:32 p.m. It was centered 30 miles north- east of Hayden. The second quake, at about 10:45 p.m., was centered 38 miles north-northeast of Hayden.
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