Pubdate: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 Source: New York Times (NY) Copyright: 2014 The Associated Press Contact: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/lettertoeditor.html Website: http://www.nytimes.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298 WASHINGTON: MARIJUANA-USE TICKETS ARE NULLIFIED (AP) - City Attorney Pete Holmes of Seattle is dropping all tickets issued for the public use of marijuana through the first seven months of this year, because most of them were issued by a single police officer who disagrees with the law allowing marijuana use. In a briefing to the City Council on Monday, Mr. Holmes said he is moving to dismiss about 100 tickets and would seek a refund for those who have already paid their $27 ticket. Through the first six months of 2014, the officer, Randy Jokela, wrote about 80 percent of the tickets, addressing some to "Petey Holmes" or writing that he considered the law silly. The officer was temporarily reassigned, and the department's Office of Professional Accountability is investigating. The police chief, Kathleen O'Toole, asked Mr. Holmes to drop the tickets Officer Jokela issued, but he said it would be easier procedurally to drop them all and would make for cleaner data as the city tracks enforcement of the law. - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom