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A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a ruling that Oregon defendants must be released from jail after seven days if they don’t have a defense attorney. In its decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit ...
The Oregon Public Defense Commission has not taken an official position on the bills, but commission chair Jennifer Nash said all three proposals would impact the public defense system grappling ...
The Oregon Public Defense Commission estimated 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.
Duncan moved to Oregon in 1996, to work as a trial attorney in the public defender's office in Washington and Multnomah counties. [4] From 2000 to 2010, she was lawyer with the appellate division of the Oregon Office of Public Defense Services, and regularly practiced before the Oregon Supreme Court and Oregon Court of Appeals, arguing 90 cases before these two courts from 2005 to 2010.
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One of the members is Steven Wax, who has deep experience in public defense. He was the U.S. public defender for the Oregon district for 31 years and is legal director of the Oregon Innocence ...
In 2016, after incumbent Shemia Fagan opted not to seek reelection to her seat in Oregon House District 51, Chavez-DeRemer filed to run as a Republican, and won the primary unopposed. [11] She lost by 564 votes to restaurateur Janelle Bynum in the November general election, in what was the most expensive state House race in Oregon of 2016. [12 ...
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 ...