Don’t be too zealous in Marion County
Criminal defense attorneys Andy Simrin and W. Keith Goody have been accused of contempt in Marion County for over-zealous advocacy of a death row inmate. Marion County Circuit Court Judge Jamese Rhodes entered an order removing Mr. Simrin and Mr. Goody as counsel for convicted murderer Gary Haugen, and, when Mr. Simrin and Mr. Goody filed a petition in the Oregon Supreme Court arguing that the...
Read MoreOregon Supreme Court is now streaming and webcasting oral argument
On June 13, 2012, I argued State v. Phillips in the Oregon Supreme Court. The issue in Phillips is whether, when the defendant might have acted as both both the principal and an accomplice to the same crime, the jury has to agree on one or the other before returning a verdict of guilty. I think that the jury does have to agree, and I also think that result is compelled by prior Supreme Court...
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