Lawyer For Seattle Ex-Mayor’s Sex Abuse Accuser Sanctioned

A lawyer was properly sanctioned for using the court docket “for the improper purpose of generating publicity” in a case alleging Seattle’s then-mayor sexually abused a minor, a Washington state appeals court ruled Oct. 8.

Delvonn Heckard filed suit in April 2017 against Edward Murray, the then-mayor of Seattle, claiming Murray paid Heckard for sex when Heckard was a minor, Judge J. Robert Leach wrote for the Court of Appeals of Washington, Division One.

After Murray’s lawyer, Robert Sulkin, held his first press conference denying Heckard’s allegations, Heckard’s lawyer, Lincoln Beauregard, sent Sulkin two letters about discovery, Leach said. Beauregard ...