SPOKANE, Wash. — 20-year-old Caleb Hulings will serve no prison time for a 2023 Spokane murder after taking a plea agreement to get credit for nearly two years already served.
Hulings pleaded guilty to manslaughter under an Alford plea, meaning he acknowledged that a jury had enough evidence to likely find him guilty, but maintains that he did not commit the crime.
He was originally charged with second-degree murder alongside his mother for the murder of 76-year-old Alvin Gallegos. In March 2025, a Spokane County judge ruled that the two would have separate trials if they went to trial, due to antagonistic and mutually exclusive defenses…