Advocates to keep fighting non-unanimous jury convictions
ANDREW SELSKY, Associated Press
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) Advocates for over 200 people found guilty of crimes by Oregon juries that weren’t unanimous said Monday that they will keep fighting to have the convictions vacated after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that those people don’t need to be retried.
The high court made that decision Monday after barring convictions by non-unanimous juries a year ago. Oregon and Louisiana were the only two states that had allowed such convictions.
Now, juries everywhere must vote unanimously to convict. The high court s 2020 decision affected defendants who were still appealing their convictions but not those who had exhausted their appeals.
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State, wireless firm reach $1.6 million false claims settlement in Oregon Lifeline overcharging
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and the state Public Utility Commission announced Wednesday a $1.6 million False Claims Act settlement with a Sprint (now T-Mobile) subsidiary called Assurance Wireless, for overcharging the Oregon Lifeline program.
This program, managed by the PUC, provides discounted voice and broadband service to qualifying low-income Oregonians, paid for with federal and state subsidies.
In 2019, PUC staff launched an investigation of Sprint’s billing practices and discovered it had been systematically overcharging the Oregon Lifeline program for ineligible usage.
PUC’s discovery eventually led to a nationwide investigation where the FCC recovered approximately $368 million for the federal Lifeline subsidy and issued a $200 million penalty.
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‘We rise together’: Asian leaders rally against racism in Oregon
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Liani Reeves was just a teenager when she realized how the different parts of her identity intersected.
Reeves was born in Korea and adopted by a white family in Oregon when she was still an infant. Raised in a rural part of the state, she was the target of bullying from a young age because of her race, but an incident that happened to her on a school bus as a high school freshmen sticks in her memory.
An older boy pulled out a knife, called her a slur, told her to go back to her country and then tried to kiss and grope her.
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