Career
He is the former Prosecuting Attorney of Spokane County, Washington. He is prominently known as the prosecuting attorney in the 1981 rape trial of Kevin Coe. After Coe was convicted of a series of rapes in Spokane"s South Hill neighborhood, Spokane County Superior Court Judge George Shields sentenced him to a Life sentence, plus 75 years.
Three months later, Coe"s mother was arrested for attempting to solicit a "hit man" to murder Shields and make Brockett an "addlepated vegetable in diapers for the rest of his life".
The rape case became the subject of Jack Olson"s book, Son: A Psychopath and his Victims, which was later adapted into the 1991 film, Sins of the Mother (1991 television film). After his retirement, Brockett served as an attorney with the Spokane, Washington law firm of Phillabaum, Ledlin, Matthews & Sheldin, Professional Limited Liability Company. As of 2015, Brockett is retired from law practice.
Brockett was born on July 8, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois. When he was six years old, the family moved to Los Angeles and then Santa Barbara, California, before arriving in Spokane in 1947.
He attended Lewis and Clark High School, graduating in 1954, and Gonzaga University School of Law, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws (Bachelor of Laws) in 1961.
Following his graduation from Gonzaga Law School in 1961, Brockett became a Spokane County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, serving in that capacity until 1969. Upon the 1969 retirement of the incumbent Prosecuting Attorney George Kain, Brockett was appointed by the Spokane County Board of Commissioners to replace Kain as the Prosecuting Attorney. He was subsequently elected to the position by voters in 1970.
He was re-elected several time as he continued to serve in this capacity until the end of 1994, when he retired.
He entered private practice with Phillabaum, Ledlin, Matthews & Sheldon, Professional Limited Liability Company in 1997. Prominent cases and book
Donald Brockett was involved in the cases of Kevin Coe, Billy Worl, First Rate (at Lloyd's) Hegge, and three death penalty cases.
He argued many cases in the Supreme and Appellate courts of Washington and argued a case, Aldinger v. Howard, 427 United States. 1, (1976) in the United States Supreme Court.
In 2015 he published the book "The Tyrannical Rule of the United States. Supreme Court, How the Court has violated the Constitution." To see more about the book and to order it go to the website criticalbookspublications.com.
