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Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ordered a retrial for a man convicted of committing two murders on Coast Guard base Kodiak. In April 2012, two coast guard employees at Communications Station Kodiak were found dead by gunshot: Richard Belisle, a retired Coast Guardsman, and James Hopkins, an active duty Coast Guardsman. Investigators tied a blue SUV to …

Nothing less than changing the culture of the federal government is the purpose of the wrongful death lawsuit brought this month as a result of the double murder at Coast Guard Communications Station Kodiak four years ago. Richard Belisle, a retired Coast Guardsman, and James Hopkins, an active duty Coast Guardsman, were killed by a coworker in 2012. Nicola Belisle …