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Consensual Use of Another Prisoner’s Telephone PIN is Not Oregon ID Theft

Loaded on July 28, 2017 published in Prison Legal News August, 2017, page 54
Filed under: Telephone Access. Location: Oregon.

The Oregon Court of Appeals held on August 17, 2016 that the consensual use of another prisoner’s telephone PIN does not constitute the crime of identity theft under state law.

Jacob Thomas Ritter was incarcerated at the Marion County Jail, awaiting trial on domestic violence charges against his girlfriend.

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