December 8, 2023 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 […]
December 8, 2023 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that a Multnomah County jury delivered a guilty verdict for Barbara Marie Michelle, 44, for the 2022 shooting death of her boyfriend, Justin Lee Williams, 41. Incident On November 24, 2022, at 1:46 a.m., Portland Police officers were dispatched to the 8700 block of […]
December 5, 2023 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced today that a Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge sentenced Aaron David Christopher, 43, to 16 years in prison for a homicide at a homeless camp in spring 2021. Incident On May 25, 2021 Portland Police Bureau Homicide Detectives, the Portland Fire Bureau, the Multnomah County […]
December 5, 2023 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that a grand jury indicted Joseph David Emerson, 44, on 84 charges related to the October 22nd incident aboard Horizon Air Flight 2059, which landed at Portland International Airport on an emergency diversion. The grand jury returned a true bill alleging: One count of […]
December 4, 2023 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced today that a Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge sentenced Joseph Dennis, 24, to 14 years in prison for the fatal shooting of Michael Qualls, 26, in spring 2021. Incident On May 5, 2021, law enforcement responded to reports of a shooting near the TriMet MAX […]
December 1, 2023 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 […]
November 30, 2023 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that a grand jury returned a not true bill for the fatal shooting of PoniaX Kane Calles, 33, on July 22, 2023. Upon the conclusion of the presentation of evidence, the grand jury returned the not true bill yesterday, finding that the use of […]
November 30, 2023 UPDATE: Today, Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge David Rees sentenced Nathaniel Curtis Freeman, 35, to two consecutive life in prison sentences without the possibility of parole. The sentence follows an August 4th verdict where a 12-person jury found Freeman guilty of multiple charges, including two counts of Murder in the First Degree […]
November 28, 2023 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced today that a Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge sentenced Thomas Nathaniel Tibball, 25, to 20 years in prison for the fatal shooting of Brian W. Logan, 52, in late 2022. Incident On November 13, 2022, at approximately 1:30 a.m., Portland Police Bureau officers responded to […]
November 28, 2023 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced today that a Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge sentenced Robert Earl Houchins, 40, to 36 months in prison for a June 2023 assault against two cyclists, which was also deemed a bias crime. Incident On June 3, 2023, a group of cyclists were riding as […]