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Portland Tribune, June 10, 2014 Every Christmas, Washington County Drug Court Judge Thomas Kohl and his wife, Julie, hold a big holiday party at their home. The tall and fit former football player welcomes family and associates from the legal and justice communities, as well as longtime drug addicts and property felons in various stages […]
Portland Tribune, June 6, 2014 Tiare Mathews, 36, spent 20 years addicted to drugs and alcohol. She committed property crimes, sold drugs, and was in and out of prison. “I did bad things, I was a bad kid. It was my identity,” said Mathews. But on May 19, Mathews graduated from Washington County Drug Court […]
From The Oregonian, February 2, 2013 The Oregon State Bar accused Washington County’s district attorney and a defense attorney in a formal complaint this week of proposing a court order that sent a mentally ill man to the state hospital illegally. Circuit Judge Thomas Kohl signed the “mental illness magistrate hold” in October 2011 for […]
From the Oregonian, July 23, 2012 Disability Rights Oregon on Friday concluded an investigation critical of the prosecution of a mentally ill Aloha man, twice charged in the 1997 slaying of his ex-wife. READ – what happened to Donn Spinosa READ – “The Incarceration of D.S. – An Investigative Report” from Disability Rights Oregon, July […]
Emily E. Smith, The Oregonian, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Washington County District Attorney Bob Hermann and defense attorney Robert Axford have responded to the state bar regarding ethics complaints, which say they sent a man to the state hospital on a legally invalid order. Responding to the complaints filed last month by retired Lane County […]
From The Oregonian, December 21, 2011 A retired Lane County judge has filed ethics complaints against Washington County’s district attorney, a circuit court judge and a defense attorney, saying they sent a man to the state hospital on an order for which there is no authority. Retired Judge Jim Hargreaves filed complaints with the state […]
The Oregonian, October 20, 2011 READ – Judge’s order will keep Aloha man hospitalized indefinitely, Oregonian, October 20, 2011 The Washington County district attorney says the case of an Aloha man charged with the violent 1997 slaying of his ex-wife illustrates the woeful inadequacy in Oregon law regarding mentally-ill offenders. Donn Thomas Spinosa, now 58, […]
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