Oregon Court Improperly Holds Library Denial Claim is Heck-Barred by On July 31, 2014, an Oregon federal court erroneously dismissed a denial of law library claim, as barred by Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994). On August 2, 2002, Seth Edwin Koch was convicted of two counts of Aggravated …
Oregon Cop Gets 5-Year Federal Child Porn Sentence by On April 24, 2013, a Portland, Oregon police officer was sentenced to five years in federal prison for receiving child pornography. Scott Edward Elliott was a 22-year veteran of the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), when he was arrested at work on …
Oregon Prisoner Paralyzed by Suicide Attempt Seeks $12 Million by An Oregon prisoner who attempted to commit suicide but ended up a quadriplegic is suing jail officials for $12 million. On May 4, 2012, Westley Wilson, 29, was arrested in Portland, Oregon, for violating a restraining order. He was initially …
Oregon Federal Prosecutor Convicted of Drunk Driving by On February 1, 2013, an Oregon federal prosecutor pleaded no contest to drunk driving and entered a diversion program. At about 1:15 a.m., on December 23, 2012, police witnessed a vehicle driving 70 mph with no headlights. The driver weaved in and …
PLN Invalidates Oregon Jail's Postcard-Only Policy; Magazine Ban and Rejection by On April 24, 2013, an Oregon federal court granted Prison Legal News (PLN) an injunction, permanently enjoining an Oregon jail's postcard-only policy. It also declared that jail magazine ban and rejection notice and appeal policies violated the First and …
Oregon Guard's Co-Worker Seek $900,000 for Sexual Harassment; Guard Admitted Forcing Prisoner to Perform Fellatio by A former Oregon jail employee is seeking $900,000 for sexual harassment by a guard who was convicted of forcing a female prisoner to perform fellatio. As we've previously reported, the 21-year career of Inverness …
Oregon AG Staff under Police Investigation, Found Dead by A long-time employee of the Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ) died in her home, ending a police investigation into her conduct. Two days later another DOJ employee was placed on administrative leave. Authorities refuse to reveal further details about the death …
Oregon Widow Seeks $533,000 for Jailed Husband's Death by The widow of a man who died in an Oregon jail when he was deprived of his heart medication, is seeking at least $533,000 in damages against the County. Ray Miller, 53, was arrested in Portland, Oregon, on August 4, 2010, …
Oregon Prosecutor Curtails Adult Prosecution & Mandatory Sentencing of "Superpredators" by Twenty-one years after Oregon first enacted a harsh mandatory sentencing law, requiring automatic adult prosecution of juveniles as young as 15 years old, prosecutors in Oregon's largest county recently announced a policy of declining to prosecute some juveniles as …
Oregon Jail Provides "Sub-Optimal" Mental Health Treatment by Mental health services for prisoners in the Multnomah County, Oregon, jail system are inadequate, a 2015 Corrections Grand Jury found. Under Oregon law, a Corrections Grand Jury may be impaneled to inspect jail and prison conditions. The Grand Jury then issues a …
Oregon Deputy Arrests Innocent Man to Protect Family; County Pays $12,000 to Settle by "This incident is the most egregious abuse of power I have ever seen," said attorney Edie Rogoway, who represented an Oregon man who was arrested for reporting criminal activity of relatives of the responding deputy. The …
Oregon Blacks Imprisoned Seven Times Rate of Whites by African Americans are six times more likely than whites to be in the Multnomah County, Oregon jail, according to a recently released study. They are also 4.1 times more likely to be prosecuted, 4.4 times more likely to be convicted, and …
Oregon African American Incarceration Far Exceeds National Average by Oregon ranks seventh in the nation in the disproportionate number of incarcerated African Americans, far outpacing the national average according to a recently released report of The Sentencing Project, in Washington, D.C. Less than 2 percent of Oregonians are African American, …
Fired Oregon Prison IG Brings $3 Million Retaliation Suit against Director by The terminated Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) Inspector General (IG) has ' filed a $3 million federal lawsuit, alleging that he was terminated in retaliation for raising ethical concerns about his boss. Oregon prison officials created the IG …
$200,000 Theft Ends Oregon Cop's 14-Year Career by A 14-year veteran Oregon police Captain was arrested on federal criminal charges for stealing more than $200,000 in government funds during an eighteen-month period. In 2002, Scott Beard was hired as a deputy sheriff for the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office, (DCSO) in …
PV Arrest Qualifies for Oregon Resisting Arrest Conviction by Mark Wilson The Oregon Supreme Court held that arrest for a probation or parole violation qualifies as an arrest for Oregon's resisting arrest statute. In 2009, police stopped Curtis McClure and asked his name. McClure told them and asked if he …
No Oregon DNA Appeal Unless Testing is Denied or Limited by Mark Wilson The Oregon Court of Appeals held that prisoners do not have a due process right to a psychological evaluation at state expense for "rehabilitation hearings." Oregon prisoners convicted of Aggravated Murder are sentenced to life imprisonment with …
No Due Process Right to Oregon Parole Witnesses or Cross-Examination by Mark Wilson The Oregon Court of Appeals rejected a facial challenge to a rule denying prisoners the right to call or cross-examine witnesses at parole hearings. When the Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision (Board) has established a …
Transfer to Women’s Prison Settles Formerly Male Prisoner’s GID Suit by Mark Wilson On October 31, 2013, Oregon prison officials agreed to transfer a formerly male prisoner to a women’s prison to settle her lawsuit. Linda Patricia Thompson suffers from Gender Identity Disorder (GID), or transsexualism, which is “a rare …
Fox v Peters, OR, Order, Spinal Injury Release Plan, 2016 Case 6:16-cv-01602-MC Document 14 Filed 08/11/16 Page 1 of 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON STEVEN FOX, Case No. 6:16-cv-01602-MC Plaintiff, ORDER v. COLETTE PETERS, Director of the Oregon Department of Corrections, in her …
