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Experts urge caution as businesses defy Covid restrictions
Business expert Sam Gross said he knows there are many business owners who would rather be open. However, he said, it won’t be worth it in the end.
Posted: Dec 9, 2020 6:45 PM
Posted By: Evita Garza
ROSEBURG, Ore. As some businesses across the state choose to reopen in defiance of Gov. Kate Brown’s latest Covid restrictions, business experts are urging caution.
Sam Gross, an advisor for the Umpqua Business Center, told KEZI 9 News that he’s worked with more than 100 small businesses as they struggle through the pandemic.
He said he knows there are many business owners out there who would rather open up against the Governor. However, he said it won’t be worth it in the end.
accomplice essentially who testifies in exchange for a lighter sentence for him or herself. well, very frequently and it happens a lot in capital cases, we have pretty good data that sam gross filed and put in the proceedings to the national academy of sciences that there is at least a 4.1% chance of error based on new evidence of innocence in capital cases. so when you the issue really before the board of parole and hopefully the governor is that this is the last case you want to execute somebody because there is so much good reason to believe that it may be a wrongful conviction. yeah. a woman execute ed yesterday in georgia, different set of circumstances, but she too was not the person who pulled the trigger and it was her boyfriend who killed her husband, her children pleaded for her. i think people have a hard time people have a hard time with the idea that two people engage in an act, the first person that sort of testifies against the other against life and the other pe
democrats and republicans so a lot of people came forward and said there is real questions on innocence and then when the oklahoma court of appeals got this past week, two of the judges descented and said there ought to be a stay and the board of parole ought to actually hold an open hearing about this. and a letter was sent, i know, to governor fallin today asking her again with more new evidence to stay it and to allow the parole board to hold an open hearing and then suddenly we have this drug thing. so the silver lining is hopefully she will take this opportunity to finally let this evidence get an open hearing. you re someone who spent decades working on cases in which people are innocently convicted, how often does that turn on testimony by an accomplice essentially who testifies in exchange for a lighter sentence for him or herself. well, very frequently and it happens a lot in capital cases, we have pretty good data that sam gross filed and put in the proceedings to the nat
happens a lot in capital cases, we have pretty good data that sam gross filed and put in the proceedings to the national academy of sciences that there is at least a 4.1% chance of error based on new evidence of innocence in capital cases. so when you the issue really before the board of parole and hopefully the governor is that this is the last case you want to execute somebody because there is so much good reason to believe that it may be a wrongful conviction. yeah. a woman execute ed yesterday in georgia, different set of circumstances, but she too was not the person who pulled the trigger and it was her boyfriend who killed her husband, her children pleaded for her. i think people have a hard time people have a hard time with the idea that two people engage in an act, the first person that sort of testifies against the other against life and the other person gets the death penalty, something that sort of offends the moral