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Dec
2012
False Confessions & the Reid Technique
The Reid technique of interrogation (developed by John Reid) is used throughout Oregon and the United States, and is the highly effective method of eliciting confessions from suspects, both guilty and innocent. With the Reid technique, arm-twisting is replaced with mind-twisting. One out of four post-conviction DNA exonerations involve a false confession. Because of its demonstrated unreliability ...
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16
Dec
2012
Tunnel Vision: How Wrongful Convictions Happen
Falsely accused of everything from DUII to rape, Clients have told me that there is nothing more frightening than to know they are innocent, and know that the investigating officers firmly believe that they are not. False arrests and wrongful convictions do not normally happen because a police officer intends to make a false accusation. The vast majority of injustices occur as a result of tunnel ...
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6
Dec
2012
The Rising Cost of DUII Diversion
The Oregon legislature created the DUII Diversion program in 1979, the same year that it made the crime of DUII a criminal offense. The legislature’s purpose in creating a diversion program was to allow people charged with DUII as a first offense the opportunity to do treatment — in exchange for their DUII charge being diverted and to avoid a conviction. Since then, the legislature has shifted the ...
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6
Dec
2012
Measure 11 - Inching Toward Reform?
In March, 2011, the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission released an exhaustive study on the impact of Measure 11 since it was approved by voters in 1994. The results of the study should lay the foundation for reform. Among the most important findings of the study: Measure 11 disproportionately targets people who are not “career criminals,” and who could be rehabilitated. Of those convicted of ...
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