The Cases
Behind the Reputation

A Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office memo offers details into why prosecutors balked at criminal charges in a sexual assault complaint filed in Portland in 2011 against Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. A woman accused Cuban of drunkenly shoving his...

Dave Dahl isn’t allowed to drive or hang out in taverns, but he can go home. A Washington County judge spared him Friday from a stay in the Oregon State Hospital. The judge decided instead to keep him on conditional...

A Multnomah County judge Thursday found a 16-year-old boy not guilty of all criminal charges filed against him after a violent tussle with Portland police last year on a North Portland sidewalk. Circuit Judge Diana Stuart ruled that Thai Gurule,...

Former Oregon football player Traeshon Holden will not face charges stemming from his arrest last week. Holden was dismissed from the team after he was arrested Wednesday on charges of alleged unlawful use of a weapon, coercion and menacing. The...

On Monday, a remorseful Scott Thomason pleaded guilty to failing to perform the duties of a driver, a courtroom mea culpa that came after a well-publicized hit-and-run earlier this month. The light sentence of 18 months’ probation came in part...

A judge Friday found two prominent members of Portland’s African American community, Charles McGee and Aubre Lamont Dickson, not guilty of sexually assaulting a woman nearly seven years ago in McGee’s Southeast Portland home. As Multnomah County Circuit Judge David...

Terri Moulton Horman has retained prominent Portland criminal defense attorney Stephen Houze as investigators continue to focus on her in the nearly monthlong disappearance of her stepson, Kyron Horman. Horman, who has been in seclusion at her Northwest Portland home...

An Oregon appeals court has ruled that the police search of a citizen’s home in response to a false burglar alarm was illegal. On the evening of February 23, 2002, the burglar alarm went off at Damon Stoudamire’s house in...

Details emerge in Bend police investigation into Munoz’s death At his home on Awbrey Butte, in the early hours of June 24, 2012, Kevin Perry shot and killed Shane Munoz. For more than 21/2 years, and under two district attorneys...

Melissa Bowerman, a former Madras High School track coach, pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree sexual abuse Monday and was sentenced to five years of probation, according to court records. Bowerman, the 45-year-old daughter-in-law of late Nike co-founder Bill...

HILLSBORO A Washington County jury has acquitted a Cedar Hills-area physician of 10 counts of sexual abuse involving two children. The jury found Dr. Thomas Lee, 39, not guilty of the charges on Friday following a three-week trial in Washington...

A 19-year-old man initially indicted on Measure 11 sex crimes was sentenced this week in Clackamas County Juvenile Court to eight days in jail and up to four years of probation for abusing a minor victim. The short sentence for...

Hillsboro, USA. Washington County Judge Steven L. Price said he had questions regarding the accuracy of the accuser's testimony. The judge's statement came after 5 days of trial (case #C061748CR) where he found Eric Pepin and Jamison P. not guilty...

A radio reporter who was arrested while covering a homeless camp sweep in a Southern Oregon park has had her case dismissed after a judge threw out a charge as unconstitutional. City prosecutors conceded defeat on a charge of resisting...

There’s no dispute John Coffey shot and killed his wife of 15 years, with a single blast to her neck in the back bedroom of their North Portland apartment in late April. But his lawyer, Stephen Houze, argued the killing...

A judge on Wednesday acquitted a 31-year-old Portland Public Schools employee charged with sexually abusing a 7-year-old developmentally disabled student in a school bathroom. Multnomah County Circuit Judge David Rees found Brett Christy-Hamilton not guilty of two counts of first-degree...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It’s as if one of the highest-profile Portland criminal cases tried last year never existed. In May 2018, a Multnomah County grand jury indicted Charles McGee and Aubré Dickson on charges they’d sexually assaulted Erica Naito-Campbell in May 2012. The...

BEND, Ore. – Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel filed a motion Tuesday to dismiss a 15-count indictment against a Bend woman accused of embezzling nearly $200,000 from a painting company, saying the company owner met and had improper discussions...