Chief Justice Martha Walters has appointed four new members and reappointed five others to the state commission that oversees legal representation for indigent criminal defendants.
Oregon's chief justice has denied that a personality conflict led her to fire all members of a commission that governs the Office of Public Defense Services and
The state commission overseeing Oregon’s public defense agency is likely to fire the divisive lawyer in charge of the department on Thursday, barely a week after its first attempt to remove him failed.