The Oregon Legislature is currently deciding how to tinker with the state's public defense system to meet the surge in criminal defendants going without attorneys.

Jacob Fitzgerald pleaded guilty to four cases across Multnomah and Washington counties, including a 2022 homicide where he ...

According to the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office, Strahm began dating the child's father in 2014 and moved into the home, assuming the role of primary caretaker. A year later ...

Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay spoke publicly Monday on the recent conclusion of the Dana Chandler double-murder trial. Kagay hosted a press conference at 3 p.m.

This is an unusually high sentence for a plea agreement but is just given the circumstances,” Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Andrew MacMillan, who prosecuted the case, said in a DA ...

according to court documents and a Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office statement. Fitzgerald’s attorney declined to comment on the guilty pleas. In the early morning hours of August 6 ...

The child at the time was under the age of 4, and Strahm quickly took on the role of primary caretaker, according to the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office.

the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said in a March 11 news release. She’s scheduled to be sentenced March 28. Her attorney told McClatchy News in a March 12 email that “it is ...