District Court hearings on former county attorney vacated

Hearings in state District Court in Havre requiring former Hill County Attorney Jessica Cole-Hodginson have been vacated after she provided documents to the court, but hearings in Hill County Justice Court still are pending.

District Judge Dan Boucher vacated the hearings requiring Cole-Hodgkinson show cause as to why she did not file judgments for him to sign on sentences imposed in seven cases.

In a letter to Boucher dated Monday, Cole-Hodgkinson, who resigned last week effective 8 a.m. Monday, said she prepared the "belated judgments" and included them with the letter.

She wrote that she wo...