State appeals court meets at Skagit Valley College

Generations of Skagit Valley College students have been tutored in acting at the Phil Tarro Theatre on the school’s Mount Vernon campus.

But Thursday morning it was a real-life drama that played out on the main stage there.

That is when SVC hosted oral argument hearings conducted by the three-judge Washington State Division I Court of Appeals, based in Seattle and whose docket takes cases originating in King, Snohomish, Skagit, Whatcom, San Juan and Island counties.

The panel heard attorneys present arguments in two civil and two criminal appellate cases.

A non-discretionary appellate court –...