Case Studies

Jake and Stephen Houze represented a software engineer in a multi-count, Ballot Measure 11 sexual assault trial in Washington County. Throughout the two-week trial, Jake and Stephen Houze exposed the falsity of the allegations made by the accuser, who was the former girlfriend of their client. On May 30, 2024, a Washington County Circuit Court […]

Traeshon Holden, the wide receiver dismissed from the Oregon football program following his arrest last week, was reinstated following the decision by the Lane County District Attorney’s office not to prosecute in light of body camera footage and subsequent interviews that contradicted the initial accounts to and by Eugene police on the night of the […]

Former Oregon wide receiver Traeshon Holden will not be charged after his arrest this week after allegedly pulling a gun on someone after the Lane County (Ore.) District Attorney’s Office reviewed body cam and video surveillance, as The Oregonian reported. Holden, who entered the transfer portal at Alabama in November and was a key member […]

The Lane County District Attorney’s office will not be filing charges against former Oregon Ducks receiver Traeshon Holden, according to his attorney. Holden was dismissed from the UO football team following his Wednesday morning arrest by Eugene police on accusations of felony unlawful use of a weapon and coercion and misdemeanor menacing. The Lane County […]

A journalist with Oregon Public Broadcasting has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Medford, Medford police and Jackson County, alleging her Sept. 22, 2020, arrest in a city park prevented her from doing her job to cover a police sweep of a homeless camp. April Ehrlich alleges that a Medford police […]

More than 70 women and children are urging Oregon’s attorney general to conduct a new criminal investigation into a West Linn doctor stripped of his license who they say performed unnecessary pelvic exams and abused them in his office and his home. The women signed a letter to Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum blasting what they […]

A former University of Portland employee who was angry about the way the school handled his daughter’s sexual assault allegation was sentenced to 18 months in prison Monday for attacking his colleague in 2019. Patrick Ell, 54, of Portland pleaded guilty in Multnomah County Circuit Court to a single charge of third degree assault. Matthew […]

David Jubb, a longtime member of Linfield University’s board of trustees who resigned under fire, was sentenced to 18 months of probation Thursday and ordered to undergo an alcohol abuse assessment after he entered no contest pleas to two counts of harassment for groping two students. Jubb, 72, had been set to go to trial […]