PORTLAND, OR - Several media outlets have reported that Portland's ultra-progressive district attorney is looking to reduce the sentences for convicted individuals who have committed violent crimes.
According to the DailyWire, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt has petitioned an Oregon judge to reduce or completely remove charges of eight people, some who have been convicted of murder, violent assaults, and robbery. Schmidt was voted out of office and will be replaced by Nathan Vasquez, who plans to implement a "tough-on-crime" approach in the Portland area.
Vasquez, who takes office on January 6th, said in a statement, "These have all the appearance of a last-minute giveaway. They're extremely violent individuals who have committed horrible crimes and they've been given some kind of break."
A state law in Oregon that was passed in 2021 allows district attorneys and offenders who have been convicted to petition a judge to reconsider the conviction and reduce a prison sentence. This can even result in a judge releasing a convicted individual from prison.
Frank F. Swopes Jr., who was convicted of murder, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, unauthorized use of a vehicle, and eluding police in 1993 when he was 30-years-old is one of the convicted offenders petitioning the court. He was convicted of killing a 75-year-old woman by asphyxiation as he and another person robbed her Portland home.
A week later, he robbed another 75-year-old woman, tying her to a bed frame. He "terrorized" her until she gave him her ATM code, "touched her sexually," and took her robe off. Court documents stated that Swopes was addicted to using cocaine.
Another convicted offender petitioning the court is 46-year-old Shane Ebberts, who along with two friends attacked two community college students with a mallet handle when he was 16. He served seven years and got out of prison in 2003. He is now married and runs his own general contracting company.
He wants the judge to let him withdraw his guilty plea and enter a new guilty plea to the lesser charge of attempted second-degree assault. The petition notes that both victims, the community college students who were attacked, are opposed to throwing out the more serious convictions.
According to the New York Post, Evan Gardner is one of the victims of Ebberts' random attack. Gardner said that Schmidt's office notified him of the petition the day before Christmas Eve. He said, "Attempted my (expletive)! As a group, they inflicted irreparable harm that will stay with both of us and our families and our extended families forever. It shattered my feeling of safety."
During the unprovoked attack, one of Ebberts' accomplices, Brian Lawler, used a baseball batt to crack the skull of Gardner's friend David Clarke while Ebberts used a mallet handle to bludgeon Gardner. The petition notes that Clarke, who survived the attack after being placed in a medically induced coma, is "strongly against" reducing Ebberts' assault convictions and considers the man to be a "danger to society."
Other convicted offenders petitioning the court include a man who robbed a pub and fired a gun at the floor with nine people inside, two women with child neglect convictions, a man who delivered drugs near a school, another burglar, and a man who delivered heroin.
Schmidt said that these petitions are similar to other he has supported this past year. He said that his office stands "for more than just convictions, but striving for justice." He added, "We have an established and extensive process, including input from our community advisory board. Each of these petitions have been considered in a thorough process over a number of months. This is the same work we've been doing throughout my term."
According to the DailyWire, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt has petitioned an Oregon judge to reduce or completely remove charges of eight people, some who have been convicted of murder, violent assaults, and robbery. Schmidt was voted out of office and will be replaced by Nathan Vasquez, who plans to implement a "tough-on-crime" approach in the Portland area.
Vasquez, who takes office on January 6th, said in a statement, "These have all the appearance of a last-minute giveaway. They're extremely violent individuals who have committed horrible crimes and they've been given some kind of break."
A state law in Oregon that was passed in 2021 allows district attorneys and offenders who have been convicted to petition a judge to reconsider the conviction and reduce a prison sentence. This can even result in a judge releasing a convicted individual from prison.
Frank F. Swopes Jr., who was convicted of murder, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, unauthorized use of a vehicle, and eluding police in 1993 when he was 30-years-old is one of the convicted offenders petitioning the court. He was convicted of killing a 75-year-old woman by asphyxiation as he and another person robbed her Portland home.
A week later, he robbed another 75-year-old woman, tying her to a bed frame. He "terrorized" her until she gave him her ATM code, "touched her sexually," and took her robe off. Court documents stated that Swopes was addicted to using cocaine.
Another convicted offender petitioning the court is 46-year-old Shane Ebberts, who along with two friends attacked two community college students with a mallet handle when he was 16. He served seven years and got out of prison in 2003. He is now married and runs his own general contracting company.
He wants the judge to let him withdraw his guilty plea and enter a new guilty plea to the lesser charge of attempted second-degree assault. The petition notes that both victims, the community college students who were attacked, are opposed to throwing out the more serious convictions.
According to the New York Post, Evan Gardner is one of the victims of Ebberts' random attack. Gardner said that Schmidt's office notified him of the petition the day before Christmas Eve. He said, "Attempted my (expletive)! As a group, they inflicted irreparable harm that will stay with both of us and our families and our extended families forever. It shattered my feeling of safety."
During the unprovoked attack, one of Ebberts' accomplices, Brian Lawler, used a baseball batt to crack the skull of Gardner's friend David Clarke while Ebberts used a mallet handle to bludgeon Gardner. The petition notes that Clarke, who survived the attack after being placed in a medically induced coma, is "strongly against" reducing Ebberts' assault convictions and considers the man to be a "danger to society."
Other convicted offenders petitioning the court include a man who robbed a pub and fired a gun at the floor with nine people inside, two women with child neglect convictions, a man who delivered drugs near a school, another burglar, and a man who delivered heroin.
Schmidt said that these petitions are similar to other he has supported this past year. He said that his office stands "for more than just convictions, but striving for justice." He added, "We have an established and extensive process, including input from our community advisory board. Each of these petitions have been considered in a thorough process over a number of months. This is the same work we've been doing throughout my term."
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Comments
2025-01-06T09:12-0500 | Comment by: Raconteur
Another of Soros' minions that needs a new suit of warm tar and downy feathers, with transport on a rail.
2025-01-06T17:09-0500 | Comment by: EDWARD
"...striving for justice." Who's justice? Certainly not the victims or their families. I can understand why entire portions of that western seaboard want to defect to red states.
2025-01-06T19:06-0500 | Comment by: James
This POS needs to be put in prison with his new found buddies! He must be bucking for a new position in Obama's new world order!