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Multnomah County Frets over No-Shows at Special Court for the Homeless

September 25, 2013
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From the Portland Mercury, September 25, 2013 To get a sense of how things are going at the Bud Clark Commons Community Court, check out its chairs. Each Friday afternoon, the docket for the court lists dozens of transient offenders accused of minor, quality-of-life-type offenses—things like drinking in public, urinating in public, smoking pot in […]

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Houston Rockets forward Terrence Jones arrested for stomping homeless man in Portland

August 2, 2013
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By Stephen DuBois, The Associated Press, July 31, 2013 Houston Rockets forward Terrence Jones was arrested in Portland, Ore., on Wednesday after he was seen stomping on a homeless man’s leg, a police spokesman said. A police sergeant making sure people remained orderly while they left a downtown club shortly after 2 a.m. saw the […]

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Man, 27, beaten by police in 2010 and awarded $306K, agrees to settlement to get his check

July 30, 2013
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By Aimee Green, The Oregonian, July 30, 2013 A 27-year-old man who won a $306,000 jury verdict last year after Portland police beat him and then unlawfully arrested him has agreed to a carefully worded settlement to receive his check. READ – Gallagher Smith v. City of Portland Settlement Documents (PDF, 28KB) Gallagher Smith was stunned […]

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City of Portland seeks to settle lawsuit with man injured in protest after Campbell, Collins deaths

May 18, 2013
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By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, May 17, 2013 The City of Portland would pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a man who was injured during a March 2010 anti-police protest, under an ordinance that will go before city commissioners Wednesday. The encounter, captured on television footage, resulted in injuries to Clifford Richardson. He […]

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Lawsuit alleges Multnomah County jail was negligent after suicide attempt that paralyzed man

February 9, 2013
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By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Feb. 7, 2013 A Multnomah County inmate, who is now quadriplegic after jumping from a second-floor tier of the downtown Portland jail and landing head first, alleges the county and jail staff were negligent, according to a lawsuit filed this week. Lawyers for Westley Wilson, 29, who was in custody […]

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Multnomah County judge jails man who swung toy light sabers

January 31, 2012
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By Aimee Green, The Oregonian, Jan. 30, 2012 A 33-year-old man who struck customers with light sabers at the Toys R Us at Hayden Island has been sentenced to 45 days jail and possible mental-health treatment. David Allen Canterbury told Judge Kenneth Walker that he is already seeking mental-health treatment. Canterbury also apologized to his […]

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Mental health and criminal justice: Penny wise and definitely foolish

October 20, 2011
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From Street Roots, October 20, 2011 By Chris O’Connor, an attorney with the Metropolitan Public Defenders office in Portland, and a board member of the Mental Health Association of Portland As an attorney working solely in indigent defense, I often see the terrible collision of mental health and the criminal justice system. Some of those […]

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Multnomah County drug call: ‘You’d be shocked by the people who aren’t in custody’

October 16, 2011
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By Steve Duin, The Oregonian, October 14, 2011 Drug call at the Multnomah County Courthouse is judicial triage, a claustrophobic circus, a casting call for “Jersey Shore.” As drug addicts, heroin dealers and defendants in a slew of property crimes saunter in — and carve the occasional anti-cop acronym into the courtroom bench — DAs […]

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Portland woman’s struggle with son shows difficulty of getting long-term care for mentally ill

March 20, 2011
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By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian – March 19, 2011 Jeri Olson arrived at Multnomah County Circuit Court anxious and tired from a restless night. “This is the worst day of my life,” she said as she walked to a second-floor courtroom for a civil commitment hearing for her 32-year-old son who suffers from mental illness. […]

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Cost cutting could end a successful program to rehabilitate drug addicts

April 4, 2009
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From the Oregonian, April 2 2009 The man with extraordinarily sad eyes stands before the judge for his twice-a-month check-in. He once held an executive job, he says, but spent an astonishing $500,000 he’d amassed over his career on crack cocaine. “I didn’t have a drug problem until I was 54, when my wife passed […]

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