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 MoreIn Post-Conviction Relief appeal, Oregon Court of Appeals will consider actual-innocence claim
I represent in a post-conviction relief appeal a fellow who was convicted of sex offenses ten years ago. The victim of the offenses has since come forward to deny that my client committed the offenses; rather, she was persuaded to accuse my client by a relative who disliked my client. In the post-conviction trial court, the state moved to dismiss, arguing that post-conviction relief is not...
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