Pertaining to trials, law suits, Judges
From The Oregonian, June 27, 1989 – not available elsewhere online A judge Monday found a woman who drowned her 3-year-old son guilty of murder except for insanity. Donna L. Gardner, 41, “did not appreciate the criminality of her conduct,” Multnomah County Circuit Judge Phillip Abraham concluded after a trial on stipulated facts. In addition, […]
From The Oregonian, August 10, 1988 – not available elsewhere online A nearly 3-year-old lawsuit filed after a mentally ill woman died in the King City area in 1984 has been settled out of court. The case, brought by Dorothy Berglund of Forest Grove for the alleged wrongful death of her daughter, Evelyn J. Berglund, […]
From The Oregonian, March 29, 1988 – not elsewhere online A 26-year-old Portland mother who drowned her infant daughter “so she could get to heaven” was found guilty Monday of murder except for insanity. Multnomah County Circuit Judge Phillip J. Roth made the finding after the prosecution and the defense stipulated that Gloria Chames was […]
The Seattle Times – September 22, 1985 The widow of a Junction City man who was murdered by a man released from the Oregon State Hospital two days before the slaying is suing the hospital’s superintendent. In her wrongful death suit filed in Lane County Circuit Court, Pearl Irvin is seeking $100,000 in damages from […]
The Seattle Times – September 11, 1985 A man accused in the shotgun slaying of his psychiatrist in a downtown Portland office has been declared unable to stand trial. Multnomah County Circuit Judge Richard Unis ordered John C. Eaton, 38, of Portland confined in the Oregon State Hospital at Salem until he is able to […]
On June 27, 1969, Jerome Brudos pleaded guilty to the slayings of three young women.
Full Text of Case U.S. Supreme Court Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660 (1962) Robinson v. California Argued April 17, 1962 Decided June 25, 1962 APPEAL FROM THE APPELLATE DEPARTMENT, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES COUNTY Syllabus A California statute makes it a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for any person to “be addicted to […]
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