March 20, 2024 Today, Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Christopher Marshall sentenced Brandon Lewis Briscoe, 47, to 25 years in prison for the June 2023 shooting death of his wife, Heather Lynn Booker, in Corbett. Deputy District Attorney Brian Davidson represented the state in this case, which resulted in a negotiated plea agreement with the […]
March 19, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge sentenced Ricardo Bernaldez-Molina, 39, to 10 years in prison for a 2022 attempted murder in Gresham. Incident On March 10, 2022, officers from the Gresham Police Department responded to Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center on reports that […]
March 18, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that a Multnomah County judge delivered a guilty verdict for Robert Arthur Plympton, 60, for the 1980 murder of Barbara Tucker near Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham. Incident Close to 7:00 p.m. on January 15, 1980, Barbara Tucker, a student at Mt. Hood […]
The judge imposed three consecutive true life prison sentences UPDATE: Today, Multnomah County Circuit Court Michael Greenlick sentenced Brett Edward Pruett, 62, to three consecutive true life prison sentences without the possibility of parole. Today’s sentencing follows an October 6th verdict where a 12-person jury found Pruett guilty for the murder of three people. […]
March 18, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced today that a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge sentenced Adrian Austin Cummins, 26, to 18 years in prison for a September 2023 stabbing on a MAX light rail train in Southeast Portland. Deputy District Attorneys Julian Samuels and Charlie Weiss represented the state in this […]
March 15, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that a grand jury indicted Jesse James Harold, 33, on two charges for a January 2024 fatal stabbing in the Old Town neighborhood: One count of Murder in the Second Degree One count of Unlawful Use of a Weapon On January 12, 2024 at […]
March 15, 2024 Today, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt released a list of cases impacted by the public defense crisis. The list includes felony cases dismissed by the JC3 court as a result of the crisis. In November, DA Mike Schmidt called the public defense crisis– defined by a lack of public defenders to […]
March 11, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced today that a Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge sentenced Sarah Rebecca Salo, 46, to 79 months in prison after being found guilty of six counts of identity theft and property crimes in three separate bench trials. Salo has a lengthy criminal history and has engaged […]
March 8, 2024 Today, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt released a list of cases impacted by the public defense crisis. The list includes felony cases dismissed by the JC3 court as a result of the crisis. In November, DA Mike Schmidt called the public defense crisis– defined by a lack of public defenders to […]
March 8, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge sentenced Leroy Rubben Morales, 57, to 72 months in prison for an October 2021 incident where Morales attempted to sexually assault a woman in the backyard of her home in the Piedmont neighborhood. Deputy District Attorney Sean […]