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PULLMAN, Wash. – State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Madsen will discuss “The Role of an Independent Judiciary in Washington” at noon Friday, March 28, in Bryan Hall 308.

PULLMAN — Debra L. Stephens, Washington Supreme Court justice, will deliver the keynote address for Washington State University’s Cougar Pre-Law Day at 1 p.m. on April 10 in the Smith Center for Undergraduate Education (CUE), room 518. Stephens will speak on law as an avenue to public service.   A native of Spokane, Stephens took […]

PULLMAN – WSU’s Theatre Program presents “The Exonerated” Feb. 7-9 and Feb. 14-16 at 8 p.m. in Jones Theatre, Daggy Hall.  The award-winning play by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen tells the true stories of six people wrongfully convicted of heinous crimes and their eventual release from death row.  Terry Converse directs this hard-hitting, powerful […]

Bryan Vila, a nationally recognized expert on crime control and human performance issues and a former law enforcement officer, is joining the criminal justice faculty at Washington State University Spokane.Vila most recently directed the Crime Control and Prevention Research Division of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ)  the research arm of the U.S. Department of […]

The regional director for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Community Relations Service arrived in Pullman Tuesday morning to review and assess the handling of a fight at the Attic nightclub and the adjoining Top of China restaurant on Sept. 8 by the Pullman Police Department. The occurrence, which involved the use of pepper spray, is […]