Days before he leaves office, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt and his Justice Integrity Unit are set Monday to ask a judge to either reduce or set aside charges for eight people, including some convicted of murder, violent assaults or robbery.
State lawmakers in 2021 passed Senate Bill 819, which allows a district attorney and someone convicted of a crime to jointly ask a judge to revisit a conviction or reduce a prison sentence. A judge can reduce a felony to a misdemeanor, erase a conviction altogether or reduce the length of a person’s sentence.
What you get when you have a DA who cares more about the criminals than the victims. Thank God he’s been voted out.