Donald Brockett

Donald C. Brockett (July 8, 1936 – November 14, 2025) was an American attorney in the state of Washington. He was the Prosecuting Attorney of Spokane County, Washington. He is prominently known as the prosecuting attorney in the 1981 rape trial of Kevin Coe. After Coe was convicted of a series of rapes in Spokane's South Hill neighborhood, Spokane County Superior Court Judge George Shields sentenced him to a Life sentence, plus 75 years. Three months later, Coe's mother was arrested for attempting to solicit a "hit man" to murder Shields and make Brockett an "addlepated vegetable in diapers for the rest of his life". The rape case became the subject of Jack Olson's book, Son: A Psychopath and his Victims, which was later adapted into the 1991 film, Sins of the Mother (1991 TV film). After his retirement, Brockett served as an attorney with the Spokane law firm of Phillabaum, Ledlin, Matthews & Sheldin, PLLC. By 2015, Brockett was retired from law practice.

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