Jordin v. Brayman: Spokane’s first right-to-counsel eviction trial by jury

Content warning: This story contains description of and reference to sexual assault.

Once the owner of five buildings, Arlin Jordin has filed hundreds of evictions in the last 20 years — nearly one for each of the 258 months of prison time he was sentenced to in 2007 for raping a potential tenant.

Jordin, 78, used to be described as one of the city’s most eligible bachelors, a decorated Vietnam war veteran and even the man with the biggest feet to ever run Bloomsday. When he walked into Clinkerdagger or pulled into a parking lot with his gold Jaguar convertible, people knew him as a man who had money — money and power…

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