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“Jury finds Madras man guilty of unlawful use of a gun in 2017 road rage encounter on U.S. 26”

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Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this decision overturning the conviction, holding that federal prosecutors had improperly “assimilated into federal criminal law Oregon’s unlawful use of a weapon statute” to apply to a a road rage incident on a highway in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in central Oregon.

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TURKEY TORTS (2020)

JonathanTurley

In Portland, Oregon, Chester Hester, 24, Nicole Noriega, 38, and Bailey Willack, 23, allegedly spent Thanksgiving morning vandalizing business by smashing windows and spray-painting graffiti on banks and other businesses. The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations.

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