Seek file for WSU conduct board

Steven Graham, Spokane attorney, has filed a motion asking court approval to release information he gathered for the defense of Jessie Heredia, the WSU student who had faced a charge of second degree rape before it was dismissed last week in court. Graham seeks to present the information to the WSU Student Conduct board in support of Heredia.

The charge against Heredia was dismissed March 4 on a motion of the prosecutor who told the court the alleged victim of the rape did not want to go through with a trial on the charge which was second degree rape.

Graham’s motion said some of the information he had gathered to defend Heredia should be in the hands of the WSU conduct board. He contended the probable cause affidavit, which he believes to be in the possession of the board, contains some factual errors and the information he assembled through the pre-trial discovery process brings to light other evidence which should go before the conduct board.

Heredia, 20, had been scheduled for trial March 14. He had been arrested Dec. 3 for the alleged rape of a woman at a WSU fraternity where Heredia had been invited as a guest. Discovery information gathered by an attorney in preparation for trial is subject to the restrictions of attorney-client confidentially court rules.