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Outside legal counsel to review Kienlen cases

  • By Jacob Bertram, Columbia Gorge News

The Wasco County District Attorney’s office has partnered with a Portland-based nonprofit defense organization to outsource manpower on an ong…

‘88 TDHS grad lauded for investigation
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‘88 TDHS grad lauded for investigation

  • Neita Cecil
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Mitch France, a 1988 graduate of The Dalles High School, and now a detective with the Newport Police Department, was honored for his work overseeing a complex and regionally significant homicide case. The department gave him a Distinguished Service Award in September for his work in the case against a woman who threw her autistic 6-year-old son, London McCabe, off the Yaquina Bay Bridge in December 2014.

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Lolley sex abuse case could go to trial

  • Ben Mitchell
  • Updated

A child sexual abuse case that has been subject to proceedings in Hood River County Circuit Court since late last year may end up going to trial in January 2015 if a settlement isn’t reached in time.

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Letter to the Editor: Lawyer’s concern

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To the editor: I believe I have tried more cases than any other lawyer in the judicial district over the past 60 years as prosecutor, defense lawyer and civil cases. (Including cases in a number of Oregon counties, federal courts in Oregon and Washington—and I have had one case go to the U.S. Supreme—which didn’t go to a hearing but was dismissed in my client’s favor (Wasco County School District 9)). I have also served as the president of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association and was recently honored by them at the annual convention.