As Dominic Holden reported in August, Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes was hoping anyone who got a pot ticket from Officer Randy Jokela—the man who'd handed out nearly 80 percent of Seattle's pot tickets as of the end of this summer, and who is now under investigation—would simply refuse to pay the $27 fine.

"These are tickets that appear to have been issued for an improper purpose and should not be enforced," the city attorney told Dominic at the time.

Now, Holmes has taken it upon himself not to enforce the tickets at all. As Dominic reports in the coming issue of The Stranger:

If you were ticketed by Officer Randy Jokela for smoking pot in public, there’s good news: You apparently won’t have to pay the $27 fine! This week, Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes requested that the city dismiss the all the city’s pot tickets issued through June July 30 of this year—80 percent of which were issued by Jokela. That reflects Holmes’s statement to The Stranger in August that he was “open to nullifying the tickets.” His actions come after we broke the news that Jokela appeared to be politically motivated when issuing the tickets (Jokela wrote messages about the city attorney and pot legalization law on the tickets), and that he gave them disproportionately to people of color. Jokela is currently under investigation.

UPDATE: The city attorney's office says he's actually asked to dismiss all pot tickets through July 30 of this year. (Not June as we initially reported above.)