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Advocates, DOJ outline narrowed wrongful‑conviction fixes, aim to reduce litigation for exonerees
Summary
Advocates and the Oregon Department of Justice described narrowed, no‑cost changes to the wrongful‑conviction compensation statute (following SB1007 and prior efforts) that would create agreed eligibility categories and a DOJ review timeline to avoid relitigation and reduce years of retraumatizing litigation for exonerees.
Janice Purakhel, Executive Director of the Forensic Justice Project, updated the Senate Judiciary committee on efforts to streamline Oregon's wrongful‑conviction compensation process and to open a narrow "change in science" pathway for a subset of cases.
Purakhel said advocates and DOJ staff agreed on two categories of exonerees who should not have to reprove innocence in compensation proceedings: those with prior court findings establishing innocence (for example, federal habeas findings)…
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