If you are facing charges for a sex crime in Oregon, it is extremely important that you take action to protect yourself and defend your rights. Whether you’ve been charged with rape, sexual assault, internet sex crimes, or child pornography, these allegations could have a significant impact on your life. The penalties for these types of crimes can be steep indeed, sometimes resulting in ...
Tips for Police Questioning. Take a deep breath. Ask: “Can I leave now?” If the answer is yes, calmly and quietly leave the area. If police questioning continues: “I don’t consent to a search, I want to remain silent, and I want to talk to an attorney.” Anything else you say will be used against you.
The Reid technique of interrogation (developed by John Reid) is used throughout Oregon and the United States, and is the highly effective method of eliciting confessions from suspects, both guilty and innocent. With the Reid technique, arm-twisting is replaced with mind-twisting. One out of four post-conviction DNA exonerations involve a false confession. Because of its demonstrated unreliability ...
If you are pulled over by a police officer for drunk driving , you need to know your rights. You have certain rights to protect yourself from incrimination, but it can be easy to provide information that can be used against you in court. Learn more about how to exercise your rights to protect yourself from DUI charges. If you are pulled over for a DUI, the office must have a probable cause. This ...
The Oregon legislature created the DUII Diversion program in 1979, the same year that it made the crime of DUII a criminal offense. The legislature’s purpose in creating a diversion program was to allow people charged with DUII as a first offense the opportunity to do treatment — in exchange for their DUII charge being diverted and to avoid a conviction. Since then, the legislature has shifted the ...
On July 18, 2014, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that juveniles cannot be given mandatory minimum sentences. Iowa is the first state to find that mandatory minimum sentences are unconstitutional when applied to children. The case involved Andrew Lyle Jr., who took a small plastic bag containing $5 worth of marijuana from a fellow student in October, 2010. Mr. Lyle was sentenced to 10 years ...
In March, 2011, the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission released an exhaustive study on the impact of Measure 11 since it was approved by voters in 1994. The results of the study should lay the foundation for reform. Among the most important findings of the study: Measure 11 disproportionately targets people who are not “career criminals,” and who could be rehabilitated. Of those convicted of ...
On November 29, 2012, the Oregon Supreme Court issued a landmark opinion on the admissibility of eyewitness identification, reversing the aggravated murder conviction of Samuel Lawson. With the opinion, the Oregon Supreme Court became one of the first states to make use of decades of scientific research establishing the frequently unreliable nature of eyewitness identification. The opinion gives ...
