A former Oregon juvenile prison guard has been sentenced to 65 years in prison for multiple sex crimes against children.
During the 1990s, Frank Milligan was employed by the Oregon Youth Authority (OYA) as a group life coordinator at the Maclaren Youth Correctional Facility.
In July 2000, Milligan abducted a ...
The Oregon Court of Appeals held that police conducted a "dehumanizing and humiliating" illegal warrant less search when three officers handcuffed a criminal defendant and forcibly spread his buttock cheeks apart to find a baggie of cocaine "pressed against" his anus.
Portland, Oregon police officers Sparks and Wells were conducting ...
The Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ) has initiated a criminal investigation against the Police Chief and second-in-command of a small, four-man Oregon police department.
Stanfield is a small Eastern Oregon community of 2,040 people on the Washington border. The four-man police department also patrols neighboring Echo, population 700.
Bryon Zumwalt, ...
"There seemed to be a permeating sense of leniency," that allowed an Oregon prisoner to brutally murder his ex-girlfriend while on a pass, a grand jury report concluded. "Consequently, we feel that the current attitudes and practices at the CCC pose a significant risk to public safety."
Eric C. Peterson, ...
An anonymous letter accusing several Oregon police officers of intimidating women into sexual relationships and other misconduct has prompted resignations, suspensions, a criminal investigation, and possible charges.
In April 2015, an anonymous letter was sent to the Washington County Sheriff s Office, (WCSO) in Hillsboro, Oregon, alleging widespread sexual harassment ...
The En Banc Oregon Supreme Court held that trial courts have implied authority to issue Sell orders directing the Oregon State Hospital (OSH) to administer involuntary medication to restore a criminal defendant's capacity to stand trial, even when OSH does not agree that medication is medically necessary.
In 2003, the ...
The Oregon Court of Appeals held that the "total sentence approach" is the proper test for assessing whether an increased sentence after a successful appeal is presumptively vindictive.
In North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711, 89 S.Ct. 2072 (1969), the Supreme Court held that due process prohibits vindictiveness ...
On November 14, 2013, a federal judge denied summary judgment to Oregon prison officials, finding that their enforcement of a policy banning “envelope art” violated the First Amendment. Following a bench trial in early 2015, the district court held the policy unconstitutional and ordered injunctive relief.
The Oregon Department of ...
Advocates for reforming laws restricting where registered sex offenders can live, and for challenging sex offender registries, have vowed to continue the fight despite facing roadblocks, which organizers admit make it difficult to eliminate the discriminatory treatment that many sex offenders face due to the nature of their convictions.
Victims’ ...
“Disabled inmates have been litigating to ensure that the State provides them with needed accommodation for over two decades – and yet the State still has a long, long way to go before it meets its obligation to these prisoners,” the Ninth Circuit observed in largely rejecting California prison officials’ ...
