Sockeye wildfire defendants ask for delay

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The state’s case against the two defendants in the Sockeye wildfire may not go to trial until sometime next year.
At a court hearing in Palmer Thursday, attorneys for defendants Amy DeWitt and Greg Imig asked Judge David Zwink for more time to prepare their case.
DeWitt and Imig have pleaded not guilty to criminal charges of recklessly igniting the fire that swept through more than seven thousand forested acres north of Willow in June of this year. The fire destroyed fifty-f