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Oregon Appellate Court, February 5, 2020
by: Rankin Johnson • February 11, 2020 • no comments
SELF-INCRIMINATION - Promises of lenience SENTENCING - Probation conditions RESTITUTION - Time limits
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Appellate Court, January 29, 2020
by: Rankin Johnson • February 6, 2020 • no comments
TRIAL PROCEDURE - Preservation and making a record SENTENCING - Comparable convictions EVIDENCE - 403 balancing TRAFFIC OFFENSES - Following too closely SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Automobile exception DEFENSES - Passive resistance CIVIL COMMITMENT - Sufficiency of the evidence TRIAL PROCEDURE - Admission of exhibits SENTENCING - Financial obligations
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Supreme Court, January 16, 2020
by: Rankin Johnson • January 24, 2020 • no comments
RESTITUTION - Findings necessary to restitution award
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Appellate Court, January 15, 2020
by: Rankin Johnson • January 24, 2020 • no comments
TRIAL PROCEDURE - Subpoena enforcement POST-CONVICTION RELIEF - Summary judgment elements POST-CONVICTION RELIEF - Successive petitions SENTENCING - Terms of probation RESTITUTION - Unjust enrichment HABEAS CORPUS - Dismissal on court's own motion
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Supreme Court, December 27, 2019
by: Rankin Johnson • January 6, 2020 • no comments
BURGLARY - Intent DUII - Statutory counterparts
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Appellate Court, January 2, 2020
by: Rankin Johnson • January 3, 2020 • no comments
CIVIL COMMITMENT - Willingness to participate in treatment CONTEMPT - Review and collateral attack FINES, FEES, AND COSTS - Collection and enforcement DIVERSION - Termination
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Appellate Court, December 4, 2019
by: Rankin Johnson • December 6, 2019 • no comments
RESTITUTION - Expenses on behalf of minor child
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Appellate Court, November 27, 2019
by: Rankin Johnson • December 6, 2019 • no comments
RESTITUTION - Expenses on behalf of minor child SENTENCING - Merger GBI - Consecutive commitment terms SENTENCING - Right to be heard SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Jail inventory searches RIGHT TO COUNSEL - Self-representation SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Constructive possession SELF-INCRIMINATION - Harmlessness SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Mere conversation JOINDER - Offenses of the same or similar character CLOSING ARGUMENT - Counsel's opinions and plain error
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Supreme Court, November 21, 2019
by: Rankin Johnson • November 21, 2019 • no comments
EVIDENCE - Inferences
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Appellate Court, November 20, 2019
by: Rankin Johnson • November 21, 2019 • no comments
RESTITUTION - Medical expenses and plain error RESTITUTION - Medical expenses RESTITUTION - Procedural requirements CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE OFFENSES - Boyd deliveries
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Supreme Court, November 15, 2019
by: Rankin Johnson • November 17, 2019 • no comments
SEARCH AND SEIZURE — Scope of stop
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Appellate Court, November 14, 2019
by: Rankin Johnson • November 15, 2019 • no comments
EVIDENCE - Rule of Completeness JURY INSTRUCTIONS - Self-defense and provocation INADEQUATE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL - Closing argument CIVIL COMMITMENT - Basic needs INADEQUATE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL - Duty to investigate
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Supreme Court, November 7, 2019
by: Rankin Johnson • November 8, 2019 • no comments
SEARCH AND SEIZURE — Officer safety
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Appellate Court, November 6, 2019
by: Rankin Johnson • November 6, 2019 • no comments
RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL - Waiver
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Appellate Court, October 30, 2019
by: Rankin Johnson • November 5, 2019 • no comments
RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL - Waiver SELF-INCRIMINATION - Statements in connection with breath-test refusal SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Probable cause SENTENCING - Merger CIVIL COMMITMENT - Sufficiency of evidence APPEAL AND REVIEW - Reviewability of plea agreements POST-CONVICTION RELIEF - Inadequate assistance of appellate counsel FAILURE TO APPEAR - Source of obligation to appear SENTENCING - Merger SENTENCING JURY INSTRUCTIONS - Knowledge that weapon is dangerous
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Supreme Court, October 24, 2019
by: Rankin Johnson • October 27, 2019 • no comments
POST-PRISON SUPERVISION — Permissible conditions
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Appellate Court, October 23, 2019
by: Rankin Johnson • October 24, 2019 • no comments
RIGHT TO COUNSEL - Self-representation
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Supreme Court, October 10, 2019
by: Rankin Johnson • October 18, 2019 • no comments
CONCEALED WEAPONS — Definition of 'concealed.'
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Appellate Court, October 9, 2019
by: Rankin Johnson • October 10, 2019 • no comments
SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Reasonable relationship to crime of arrest CIVIL COMMITMENT- Evidence supporting continued commitment RIGHT TO COUNSEL - Conduct constituting a waiver of counsel PROBATION - Sentence upon violation JURY INSTRUCTIONS - Objections to jury instructions EVIDENCE - Accomplice testimony FAPA AND RESTRAINING ORDERS - Sufficiency RIGHT TO COUNSEL - Self-representation
→ read the full summaries...Oregon Appellate Court, October 2, 2019
by: Rankin Johnson • October 3, 2019 • no comments
SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Reasonable relationship to crime of arrest SUFFICIENCY OF EVIDENCE - Corpus delicti rule EVIDENCE - Relevance EVIDENCE - Victim's prior sexual conduct SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Overbroad search warrant POST-CONVICTION RELIEF - Church claims SENTENCING - Restitution SEARCH AND SEIZURE- Inventory
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