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Some of the most difficult cases for lawyers, and social workers and judges, to resolve involve juvenile sex offenders, i.e. sex offenders who are under the age of 18 and very often under the age of 16. Work with juvenile offenders (and juvenile witnesses) is difficult under any circumstances, but sex offense criminal charges add another dimension to the complex equation.

I’ve been working on a juvenile sex-offender bibliography and thought I’d post here what I’ve found so far. I’m sure there are many other resources. These are, of course, in addition to case law and legal treatise resources.

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· Bibliographies, Young offenders, Updated February 2010: This bibliography of recent research has been compiled from the library collection of the Australian Institute of Family Studies.

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I loved this article by Conrad Jacoby:

“Of Refrigerators and E-Discovery,” by Conrad J. Jacoby, LLRX, April 21, 2010.

It brings to mind what Harry Markopolos had to say about the SEC (they were clueless at fraud detection, but thought they were the bomb) …and, in another context, conversations I have had with parents and computer scientists over whether their children and students, respectively, are Info Consumers or Info Producers. (Yes, one sometimes needs to be both, but an imbalance is fatal.)

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Once upon a time, if you were researching Child Support Rules and wanted Commentary, you could find the documents on the agency website. But, alas, no more. The homepage refers to OAR Commentary, but you won’t find any.

You can find the archived Commentary, however, if you look at the Internet Archives (and Wayback Machine). Versions of the DHS Child Support Guidelines, with Commentary, are there. They are slow to load on my computer, but these searches in the Wayback Machine should get you there.

Option 1 (URL search): http://dcs.state.or.us/oregon_admin_rules/guidelines.htm
Option 2 (word search): Oregon child support guidelines rule commentary (this is just one possible word search)

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If you’ve never had the pleasure of chuckling over a coffee and the London Review of Books Personals ads (some also collected in this book, featured in a 2006 NPR story ), here is a Small Claims Court one. Who knew?!

“I was recently victorious in a small claims court and with my compensation cheque I’d like to take you (F to 48) on a weekend bicycling trip to the Lake District Centre Parc. This offer doesn’t include meals or alcoholic beverages. M, 53. box no: 11/01”

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Law Reference Librarian
Closes: July 16, 2010
Eugene, OR

“… The person in this position works collaboratively with three law-trained reference librarians and several student reference assistants to provide extensive reference, instructional and research services for a research-oriented law faculty and students in a technologically advanced information environment….
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Application Deadline: Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Applications received by July 16, 2010 will receive priority consideration. Informational interviews will be conducted at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, July 10-13 in Denver, Colorado.

The complete announcement may be found at the University of Oregon website.

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The Clackamas County Law Library seeks a part-time (18 hours/week) Law Library Assistant who is available to begin employment soon after July 1. Primary responsibilities involve providing legal research and reference assistance to patrons; processing incoming print and non-print materials; and assisting the Law Librarian. Persons with strong cataloging, communication and computer skills in a legal environment are encouraged to apply.

This is a great opportunity for someone with a MLS or JD degree who seeks part-time employment. Most competitive candidates will have experience providing legal reference assistance to library patrons and have working knowledge of the cataloging and classifications system in a law library.

Law Library hours are 8:30 am – 5 pm, Monday – Friday. This position is 18 hours per week. Exact schedule to be worked out with candidate selected for the position.

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If you plan to file in the Oregon Court of Appeals:

June 2, 2010, Media Release

NOTICE: EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010, ORAP 5.05 is amended.

For cases in the Court of Appeals in which the notice of appeal (or other initiating document) is filed on or after July 1, 2010:

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Forest Grove News-Times ran an interesting story about the May 2010 election for the Washington County Justice of the Peace:

“Not everyone votes in judge race: Low-key race doesn’t wind up on ballots in Hillsboro,” by Christian Gaston, The Forest Grove News-Times, May 6, 2010:

Excerpt: “…But if you live in downtown Hillsboro, chances are, you won’t see either of their names on your ballot.

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Arcade Book Exchange will be a Stevens-Ness Partner/Dealer for the Western Washington County (Oregon) area beginning June 1st, 2010.

Gene Horton, of Horton’s Sav-On Office Supply in Forest Grove, will be retiring and closing his store on May 28th. The Arcade Book Exchange will take over the Stevens-Ness Legal Forms portion of his business.

If you have any questions please feel free to call the Arcade Book Exchange at 503-648-5821 or visit their website:

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Usually when one wants to “shepardize” an Oregon statute (i.e. look for subsequent cases or legal publications that have cited the statute), the results are fairly uniform whether you check the official ORS Annotations volume (print and online), Lexis-Nexis Shepard’s, or Westlaw Keycite. The results are not usually identical, but there is usually a lot of overlap and maybe a unique hit or two. But for the latest request we got 3 extremely different results for a single ORS statute, which shall not be identified for now in the interest of privacy.

1) The official ORS Annotations had 0 results – yup ZERO.
2) Shepard’s had 4 case citations (and a variety of non-case annotations).
3) Westlaw’s annotated statute (and KeyCite) has a zillion cases. (Well, not quite a zillion, but if you looked at the print ORSA volume, they covered more than 3 pages.)

There is always the “poor-man’s shepard’s,” which simply means you plug your statute citation into a Oregon case law database and run with it.

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