Fred Russell: Appeals court affirms conviction

Washington state’s Court of Appeals upheld Tuesday the conviction of Frederick Russell, the former Pullman man who caused a triple fatality car accident on the Pullman-Moscow Highway in June 2001.

Whitman County Prosecutor Denis Tracy told the Gazette of the appellate court’s decision Tuesday. Russell’s appeal was heard before the state’s Division III Court of Appeals in Spokane.

Tracy said the appellate court did grant Russell’s request to be credited for the year he served in prison after he was arrested in Dublin and before Ireland agreed to extradite him back to Whitman County.

Russell was...