SANDPOINT — A 1st District judge denied on Tuesday a motion to dismiss a subornation of perjury charge against former Bonner County Clerk Ann Dutson-Sater, court records show.

Judge Benjamin Simpson issued the ruling from the bench following oral arguments on the defense motion in Coeur d’Alene.

The felony charge stems from Dutson-Sater allowing an organizer of a Lake Pend Oreille School District trustee recall to swear under oath that he had seen all of the signatures being gathered when he hadn’t.

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