Will the Romeo and Juliet law protect me from these charges?
There is no such thing as "pressing charges" for private persons. This is a common misconception. Criminal charges are investigated by the police...
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There is no such thing as "pressing charges" for private persons. This is a common misconception. Criminal charges are investigated by the police...
No. First of all, government agencies and officers, including the police and prosecutors' offices, have sovereign immunity to lawsuits for actions...
Yes, you do. The restraining order does not make it illegal for the respondent in that case to send you a request for production of documents or...
Private citizens cannot effectively sue police departments or prosecutors for failing to prioritize their cases, unless state law explicitly...
The state does not need to present evidence of your ability to pay to seek contempt. The law presumes that, by default, all adults are able to find...
Oregon law makes it a crime to 'obtain the contents of a conversation' (i.e., recording or monitoring it) unless all parties to the conversation...
The burden of proof in a contempt case is on the prosecution. However, because contempt is a sort of quasi-civil remedy, the burden required is not...
You'd have to ask an attorney in the other state for advice about the laws of that state. But most likely Oregon will continue to assert...
There is some precedent for the proposition that you can sue someone who gave you a sexually transmitted infection. However, my understanding is...
Unfortunately, it is often quite meaningless to guess chances on the outcome of a court proceeding. There are two reasons for this. First, we...