Tag Archives: Criminal Sentencing

Woman released from prison after Oregon Supreme Court rules governor exceeded authority

The state’s high court ruled Gov. Tina Kotek didn’t have the power to revoke a commutation after a person completed their sentence. The justices wrote that Terri Lee Brown’s “imprisonment is unlawful.” Kotek revoked Brown’s commutation last year. The Oregon Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday that Gov. Tina Kotek didn’t have the authority to […]
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Editorial: Money needed for Oregon public defender crisis | Opinion |

Most people charged with crimes in Oregon rely on a public defender. It’s more than 90%. And although it is required to make an attorney available for someone who needs one, Oregon fails to do so every day. There were 2,865 individuals without representation in Oregon on Friday. Source: Editorial: Money needed for Oregon public […]
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WA adults serving extra prison time for juvenile offenses may see sentences reduced

Bryin Thomas doesn’t have any memories of his father outside of prison. “My earliest memory is [when I was] 3 years old and he was at the county jail,” Thomas said. “I just remember him putting his hand on the glass and me putting my hand on the glass.” Thomas is 22 now. His father, […]
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The standard sentence for most hate crimes in Oregon? Probation, not jail time.

Abner Castro Gomez and Floridalma Marroquin were petrified last year when their neighbor pointed a pistol at them and their two children, ages 5 and 9, in the parking lot of their shared Beaverton apartment complex. The couple, who’d moved to Oregon from Guatemala three years earlier, don’t speak much English. But they said they […]
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Gov. Kotek asked to yank dozens of commutations for prisoners suspected of new crimes

The Marion County district attorney this week said she asked Gov. Tina Kotek to revoke the commutations of dozens of people who committed new crimes or are suspected of doing so after they were released early from prison, including a man now accused of murder. District Attorney Paige Clarkson said her office reviewed the cases […]
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Marion DA wants governor to revoke commutations, return 55 to prison

Marion County District Attorney Paige Clarkson is asking Gov. Tina Kotek to revoke the sentence commutations for 57 people, a move that she hopes would return 55 to prison to serve their full sentences and extend time in prison for two others. Clarkson said the former inmates have committed new crimes or violated their parole […]
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Ex-Oregon prison nurse Tony Klein sentenced to 30 years in federal prison

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former Oregon prison nurse Tony D. Klein to 30 years in prison for sexually abusing nine women at Coffee Creek Correctional Institution. Seventeen former and current prisoners of Oregon’s only women’s prison testified that Klein sexually assaulted them when they sought medical care or worked in the medical unit […]
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Former prison nurse sentenced to 30 years for sexually assaulting Coffee Creek inmates

A former Oregon Department of Corrections nurse was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in federal prison for sexually assaulting nine female inmates while working at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. Tony Daniel Klein, 39, of Clackamas County, was convicted in July of 17 counts of depriving the women of their constitutional right to not be […]
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Former Oregon prison nurse receives 30-year sentence for abusing women in custody

Federal prosecutors say the case against Tony Klein is the largest of its kind the U.S. Department of Justice has prosecuted, both in terms of the number of victims and charges. A former Oregon correctional nurse was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday for sexually assaulting numerous women at the state’s only prison for […]
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New Fentanyl Laws Ignite Debate Over Combating Overdose Crisis

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