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A bill that would allow a district attorney and a person convicted of a crime to ask a judge to revisit a conviction or reduce a prison sentence has passed
SALEM â A recent study that draws heavily on Deschutes County found an âoverwhelming consensusâ among law enforcement officers that Oregonâs marijuana laws are poorly written and confusing.
As a result, this perception has even led some local officers to stop enforcing marijuana laws altogether, according to the February report by Portland State University researchers Kris Henning and Greg Stewart.
âThe laws are too convoluted to comprehend,â one officer wrote in a survey response. âIf we as law enforcement canât easily decipher the laws, how can we expect the citizens to be able to understand them?â
Wrote another: âI have just started treating weed as if it is legal regardless of the amount.â
Portland protests shape District Attorney Mike Schmidt’s young tenure: Now what?
His decision not to prosecute most protest-related crimes drew fire from President Trump and praise from reformers. What’s happened since.
Updated on Feb 02, 2021;
Published on Jan 30, 2021
Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt on Sat., Jan 15, 2021. Schmidt, 39, campaigned as a reformer and won 77% of the vote. His approach to protest-related arrests has won praise and encountered resistance. “You re not damaging anything, you re not lighting things on fire, then you re not the person we re going to prosecute,” he said. “There is no public safety value to prosecuting that person because a year-and-a-half from now when it actually goes to trial, even if we convicted you, what good did we do? Oregonian staff/Dave Killen Dave Killen