{"id":8089,"date":"2024-10-22T14:23:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T21:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcda.us\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8089"},"modified":"2024-10-23T14:34:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T21:34:38","slug":"grand-jury-transcripts-released-for-richard-perez-death-investigation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.mcda.us\/index.php\/news\/grand-jury-transcripts-released-for-richard-perez-death-investigation","title":{"rendered":"Grand Jury Transcripts Released for Richard Perez Death Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Multnomah County District Attorney\u2019s Office today published transcripts of the grand jury proceedings in the death investigation of Richard Shawn Perez.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upon the grand jury\u2019s return of a \u201cnot true bill\u201d in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portland.gov\/police\/open-data\/richard-shawn-perez\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this matter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, MCDA filed a motion with the presiding court to create and release a transcript of the recorded grand jury proceedings pursuant to ORS 132.270. The transcripts are available on MCDA\u2019s website:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Grand-Jury-Testimony-09-03-2024.pdf\">Grand Jury Testimony 09-03-2024<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Grand-Jury-Testimony-09-04-2024-1.pdf\">Grand Jury Testimony 09-04-2024<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MCDA has no additional comment on this matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Original Message (9\/5\/2024)*<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Grand Jury Returns Not True Bill for 4 PPB Officers in May 2024 Officer-Involved Shooting of Richard Perez<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that a grand jury returned a not true bill and found that the use of force by Portland Police Officers Sebastian Precup, Dewey Madison, Justin Thurman, and Jake Ramsey which resulted in the death of Richard Shawn Perez, 45, was not criminal under Oregon law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deputy District Attorney Kristen Kyle-Castelli presented the case to a grand jury on September 3rd and 4th, 2024. The grand jury, upon the conclusion of the presentation of evidence, returned a not true bill for all involved officers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previously released information regarding this incident is available <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portland.gov\/police\/open-data\/suspect-unidentified\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pursuant to ORS 132.270, the Multnomah County District Attorney\u2019s Office will file a motion and request that the court authorize the release of a grand jury transcript for public review. If the court grants the motion, the DA\u2019s Office will post the transcript on its website.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Multnomah County District Attorney\u2019s Office today published transcripts of the grand jury proceedings in the death investigation of Richard Shawn Perez. Upon the grand jury\u2019s return of a \u201cnot true bill\u201d in this matter, MCDA filed a motion with the presiding court to create and release a transcript of the recorded grand jury proceedings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8089","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcda.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcda.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcda.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcda.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcda.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8103,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcda.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8089\/revisions\/8103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcda.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}