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Prosecutors Are Banding Together to Prevent Criminal-Justice Reform

Prosecutors Are Banding Together to Prevent Criminal-Justice Reform

  • Media StoryOregon News

Prosecutors have one big reason to protect harsh sentencing: Today, around 95 percent of federal and state criminal cases end in a plea bargain. Such agreements, in which the defendant pleads guilty in exchange for a fixed sentence, avoid the time and expense of a jury trial, making it faster and cheaper for prosecutors to

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October 18, 2017 0

Why Are Prosecutors Putting Innocent Witnesses in Jail?

Why Are Prosecutors Putting Innocent Witnesses in Jail?

  • Media StoryOregon News

Across America, some prosecutors—arguably with the authority of state and federal laws—are jailing innocent crime victims and witnesses, in hopes of insuring their testimony in court. In Washington State, a sexual-assault victim was arrested and jailed to secure her testimony against the alleged perpetrator. (He was found guilty of kidnapping, attempted rape, and assault with

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October 17, 2017 0

District attorneys can block or lead on criminal justice reform: Guest opinion

District attorneys can block or lead on criminal justice reform: Guest opinion

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The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon just launched a major, multi-year campaign to reform our state’s criminal justice system. We want to improve the system so it is more fair, just and effective. But instead of focusing on police departments, sheriffs’ deputies or judges, we’re focusing on 36 individuals who most Oregon voters know

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September 24, 2017 0

Oregon ACLU puts heat on elected prosecutors <br><h6>Portland Tribune</h6>

Oregon ACLU puts heat on elected prosecutors
Portland Tribune

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With district attorney elections coming up in Washington and Marion counties, the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon has knocked on more than 15,000 doors in those areas, encouraging people to support prosecutors who shun “tough on crime” policies. But the new campaign, called They Report to You, is running into a problem: While the

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September 11, 2017 0

Prosecutors’ Decision to Cripple a Judge’s Career Echoes a Larger Battle Over Criminal Justice Reform in Oregon

Prosecutors’ Decision to Cripple a Judge’s Career Echoes a Larger Battle Over Criminal Justice Reform in Oregon

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Shortly after 4 pm on June 6, Circuit Judge Judith Matarazzo received an unusual visitor at her office in the Multnomah County Courthouse. An hour earlier, District Attorney Rod Underhill had called to request a meeting. The pair had met only a handful of times before. Matarazzo had a lot on her mind. She would

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August 30, 2017 0

Want to end mass incarceration? Stop blindly reelecting your local prosecutor.

Want to end mass incarceration? Stop blindly reelecting your local prosecutor.

  • Media StoryOregon News

Until now, the political system and voters haven’t really held prosecutors accountable. About 95 percent of incumbent prosecutors won reelection, and 85 percent ran unopposed in general elections, according to data from nearly 1,000 elections between 1996 and 2006 analyzed by Ronald Wright of Wake Forest University School of Law. But prosecutors are enormously powerful

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