Doug Brown

It kept defense attorneys and psychologists from visiting.

This three-inch by three-inch magnet was found in a Roosevelt High School bathroom this morning RHS student A student at Portland’s Roosevelt High School found a magnet with an illustration of a hooded Ku Klux Klan member with the text “The KKK Wants You!” He spotted it in the boys bathroom around 9:30 this morning […]

Mathu Dwain Karcher A white Portland man is accused of yelling “N*****, you’re in the wrong neighborhood” at a Black man. He’s also accused of attempting to get his pit bull to attack the man, police and prosecutors say. Mathu Karcher, 40, is charged with menacing and intimidation (a bias crime) from the incident that […]

It’s time to bump up the likelihood that Portland will be home to a Major League Baseball team in the future from .0001 percent to .001 percent. Things are looking up! “Portland would be on a list” said MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred on Wednesday at a press conference in Seattle, answering questions about potential cities […]

Good morning, Portland. I hope you’ve been enjoying the cloud-and-rain-based smalltalk recently. Let’s click these links. First up is this week’s feature: “Wildfire Diaries: Three Days in Oregon During the Eagle Creek Fire” by writer Martha Grover. It’s good and you should read it. ANOTHER BELIEVER / CC 3.0 The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office […]

ANOTHER BELIEVER / CC 3.0 Big changes are coming to Multnomah County’s most high-profile criminal cases, but nobody knows how much strain they’ll put on the court system. This summer, the Oregon state legislature passed a law requiring prosecutors to record and provide transcripts of grand jury testimony to defendants. For the first time in […]

It’s a win for transparency—but a potential headache for public defenders.

Multnomah County District Attorney Rod Underhill Doug Brown The Multnomah County District Attorney’s office will phase out using secretive grand juries in most felony cases, according to a letter District Attorney Rod Underhill sent to Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Nan Waller this summer. The prosecutor’s office will instead rely on preliminary hearings in open […]

The National Lawyers Guild legal observer just before he was shoved to the ground Sunday Doug Brown The Portland Police Bureau is again taking heat for questionable actions during Sunday’s protest downtown. First, an officer nonchalantly chucked a grenade at non-threatening people during a chaotic arrest on the corner of SW 3rd and Salmon. That’s […]

Good morning, Portland. Link time! Before we get into the news, all you recent transplants should check out our newcomers’ guide to Portland, which is also out in print as of yesterday. Alabaster Pizzo Dirk VanderHart’s story on the battle over homeless shelters in Old Town: The accusations flew on Wednesday, September 6, as an […]