Josh Marquis

Honor bestowed on DA Daily Astorian, June 20, 2008, "In One Ear" feature Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis can now claim to be a knight ... sort of. Marquis, pictured above kneeling, was named a "Knight of Rosaria" at a ceremony as part of the Portland Rose Festival this year. He joins several prominent Astorians who have been so honored in the past, as well as actors Jimmy Stewart,...

Friday, May 30, 2008 In 1994 Oregon voters overwhelmingly passed Measure 11. An effort to repeal the law in 2000 was rejected by a resounding 75 percent of voters. You'd think the message would be clear: Oregonians want there to be truth in sentencing. Still, opponents of the law want to take another swipe. Oregonians are again facing an onslaught of propaganda that seeks to persuade us to...

Letter to the Editor, the Daily Astorian Published Friday, April 25, 2008 On May 20, registered Democrats will choose Oregon's next attorney general. There is no Republican candidate, so the winner of the Democratic primary, between John Kroger and Greg Macpherson, will be the state's top lawyer. I strongly endorse the candidacy of John Kroger. Kroger is a law professor at Lewis and Clark, a...

Clatsop County commissioners restore Marquis' $13,500 pay addition; issue was a key controversy last year By JOE GAMM The Daily Astorian Thursday, April 24, 2008 Nearly a year after the Clatsop County Board of Commissioners stripped the district attorney of a county-paid stipend to his salary, it has reversed its decision. Saying county District Attorney Josh Marquis has complied with its...

Adam Liptak, "Sidebar" columnist and legal report for the New York Times, wrote an interesting column this week called "Consensus on Counting the Innocent: We Can’t" The column arose from a detailed opinion from US Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia, in Kansas vs. Marsh, in which Scalia cited a series of writings by me on the subject of innocence and the death penalty. I pointed out that...

I'm calling in for the first and only time on the issue of Richard Lee's recall, to make a couple points. First is that despite repeated claims by Mr. Lee and his supporters, neither my wife, Cindy Price, who narrowly lost the race to Mr. Lee by one half a percent of the votes in 2006, nor I have been involved in the Citizens for Open Government. They haven't sought my advice. I haven't...

In a front-page story in Sunday's Oregonian reporter Susan Goldsmith tells the tale of "innocent" people wrongly charged with driving under the influence or reckless driving who then suffer because they can't have their police records erased. There are some problems with her story but she’s absolutely right about one thing: Oregon’s system of sealing or not sealing records is a mess....