Oregon Legal Research BlogThe OJD December 10, 2009, Media Release gives a summary of this case (other Media Releases).
Read the full case:
State of Oregon v. Roy Lee McCullough, Jr. (SC S056910) (decided December 10, 2009)
Articles Tagged with Criminal law
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Oregon Supreme Court Case Limiting Mandatory Measure 11 Sentences
The Oregon Supreme Court case that limited mandatory measure 11 sentences and that garnered a lot of headlines and commentary in September, was:
STATE OF OREGON v. RODRIGUEZ / BUCK (SC S055720), filed September 24, 2009:
The decisions of the Court of Appeals are affirmed in part and reversed in part. The judgments of the circuit courts are affirmed.
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Missing Bodies and Death Declarations (with a side of road kill and zombie debt – oh my!)
How do you declare someone dead when there is no body?
I should probably save this for a Day of the Dead post, but, appearances notwithstanding, I’m blogging about Legal Research and the Living so … full speed ahead. (Previous posts about road kill & zombie debt.)
1) Check your state laws, forms, and procedures first and, if you are a lawyer, ask your lawyer colleagues for shortcuts and anecdotes too.
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Sex Offender Laws
Most headline news stories would benefit from better analysis (not to mention better research) than they are generally given by journalists in 500-1,000 (or even 5,000) word articles and sex offender registration stories are at the top of that list.
For another “view of the cathedral”, (with apologies to Guido Calabresi) on this difficult subject, see f/k/a, who has been blogging thoughtfully on this subject for quite a while now.
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The Oregon FISA (Brandon Mayfield) Decision
One easy way to keep up with Oregon legal news is to use Justia’s search engine on their web site. A recent search turned up this link to a Volokh Conspiracy post, The Oregon FISA Decision. (And do read the Comments.)
Since I’m in the legal research business, not the legal news business, I’ll gladly show you how to do this yourself:
On a regular basis (I don’t post here everything I read there) visit the Justia Blawg Search and type the word Oregon into the search box (do I also need to tell you to click “search? Nah :-) Easy as pie. (Their home site is Justia )
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Criminal Identity Theft: How to Clear Your Record
Would a records check on you erroneously show a criminal conviction? If it did, what steps would you take to clear your record?
For example, what would you do if in the course of applying for a mortgage or a job or looking for an apartment, the bank, employer or apartment manager told you, “forget about it” because a background or credit check came up with a criminal conviction on your record. So you didn’t know you even had a “record” did you? Well think again. This type of identity theft (or besmirching) is happening, again and again.
Trying to fix this type of criminal record error makes clearing your financial record after a financial identity theft look like a walk in the park (ok, a really big park, with a lot of really steep hills). This is partly because the reason for the error can be located anywhere from the criminal impersonator (if there is one) to errors by a law enforcement agency, by the database vendor, or by whomever is contracting for the information. (There are probably others in this chain.)