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In its decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called Oregon's public defense system a “Sixth Amendment nightmare,” OPB reported, referring to the part of the U.S. Constitution that ...
Aug. 24—LA GRANDE — When the commission of the Oregon Public Defense Services met Thursday, Aug. 18, to vote on the fate of director Steve Singer, Jared Boyd, a local attorney, kept tabs on ...
Public defenders raise alarm about recriminalization. Public defenders cautioned lawmakers about returning to criminalizing possession. The Oregon Public Defense Commission has not taken an ...
The Red House eviction defense was an occupation protest at a foreclosed house on North Mississippi Avenue in the Humboldt neighborhood in the Albina district, a historically Black district of Portland, Oregon, United States. [1] [2] [3] The Kinneys, a Black and Indigenous family, [4] owned the house, often called the "Red House," for 65 years ...
Oregon’s judiciary consists primarily of four different courts: the Oregon Supreme Court, the Oregon Tax Court, the Oregon Court of Appeals, and the Oregon circuit courts. Additionally, the OJD includes the Council on Court Procedures, the Oregon State Bar , Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability, and the Public Defense Services ...
Michael Schmidt (born 1980/1981) [1] is an American attorney and a progressive prosecutor. [2] [3] He has served as the Multnomah County District Attorney since August 2020.. Originally set to begin his term on January 1, 2021, Governor Kate Brown appointed him to the job early, in August 2020, to replace Rod Underhill, who retired in J
Oregon's chief justice has fired all the members of the Public Defense Services Commission.
The Oregon Public Defense Commission said it would need to hire an additional 39 full-time public defenders to provide the representation needed for the estimated new cases under the bill.