OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington Supreme Court has declined to release the recordings or transcripts of a deposition given by a male prostitute as part of a criminal case against a former judge.
Michael Hecht was a Pierce County Superior Court judge when he was charged with felony harassment and patronizing a prostitute in 2009.
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