EVERETT - A man who pleaded guilty to killing a mail-order bride, then broke his agreement with prosecutors, has been ordered to appear for arraignment and could face a longer prison term, prosecutors say.
Under an order signed Friday in Snohomish County Superior Court, Daniel Kristopher Larson, 25, must be returned from prison in Minnesota for arraignment Nov. 10.
Larson was sent to a Minnesota prison because of overcrowding here, a legal assistant in the prosecutor's office said Monday.
Deputy Prosecutor Coleen St. Clair said she would file first-degree murder charges against Larson within a week in the necktie strangling of Anastasia Solovieva King, 20, originally from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Sept. 22, 2000.
Larson previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and agreed to testify against Indle Gifford King Jr., his landlord and the husband of the dead woman. As part of the plea agreement, Larson also agreed not to appeal his own conviction or sentence, which turned out to be 20 years.
In 2002 Indle King was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to nearly 29 years in prison.
Testimony showed his wife was planning to seek a divorce when she was ambushed by Larson, who strangled her as her 270-pound husband sat on her.
Larson, whose criminal history includes sex crimes and assault, could get a longer sentence than King, St. Clair said.
In 2003 a judge ruled that Larson violated the plea agreement when he ignored the warnings of prosecutors and a public defender and filed jailhouse papers seeking to withdraw the guilty plea. Larson claimed his sentence should not have exceeded 14 years.
Larson challenged that ruling, which was upheld in August by the state Court of Appeals.
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