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A Clackamas County Judge found a Lake Oswego real estate developer not guilty of all nine charges of Rape and Sexual Abuse alleged by an acquaintance. The two week trial featured DNA evidence, forensic analysis of electronic devices, and complex legal issues. A guilty finding would have resulted in a lengthy, mandatory prison sentence. At […]

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 […]

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 first two charges are felonies and the third is a misdemeanor. Lane County District Attorney […]

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 arrest shortly after a municipal court judge dismissed the trespass charge against journalist April Ehrlich […]

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 Kaden Kafoury of Milwaukie was tied to timing and the sweeping changes the Legislature made […]

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 Rees read the verdict, relatives and supporters of the two men broke out in tears […]

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 hand down her pants and penetrating her vagina at a downtown nightclub, prompting a police […]

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 sexual abuse. The case was “a textbook example of how an innocent person can be […]

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 was not intentional. Coffey was extremely drunk, estimated to have a blood-alcohol content more than […]

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, a Roosevelt High School sophomore, didn’t resist arrest. He also didn’t strangle and assault police […]