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In short to court at sentencing my child: A child told OR Grand Jury the horror of 3yrs violently raped by a step-father. Mother purposefully manipulated facts&convinced the G Jury not to believe her son. Mother, G.J,& DA caused as much trauma as step-father.Under threat of long forced abandonment of his children my child bargained for (mand.sent.of over 6yrs) Violent s-father in 94 would receive less for worse eligiblefor therapy&early release. Violent abuser escapes punishment later to find nonviolent victim going to prison in his place. Mand.law allowDA to punish 2 more innocent children taking loving father during their most influential yrs. He turned himself in to enable help for that which another caused him to come to do. What intentional criminal would do what this brave young man did? Because of statutes of mand.reporting, help was not allowed outside of the prison sys. Risked all to seek help. At age 17 I entered the Marines fought an unjust war children were forced by threat of Fed Prison to maim, burn,&kill children&their families. Now called heroes? Then we were called baby killers! I ask court to defy laws that have stripped from court ability to give meaning to what children were required to recite in school,“And justice for all.”Give this young man, a victim in his own right, punishment equal to the actual crime. When will OR, its courts, &people take notice they are creating the criminals they sentence? When will the injustice stop?
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People of the State of Oregon, we were duped into believing that “Measure 11,” would protect us against violent offenders. Violent offenders and (so called) violent offenders only because of the offenses they are charged with not what actions they actually engaged in, are not given therapeutic assistance to prevent recidivism. They are given years in Oregon prisons unequal to their crime and then set free with bad attitudes toward the justice system and without treatment because of a requirement by law not to be allowed enticements for completing programs to help prevent them from further offending prior to release. Now we have voted in Measure 57 purely by default of a obviously wrongly written initiative giving us but little choice. Which had less to do with stopping crime then it did to enhance the pockets of a professional petitioning company owned by the petitioner? Do you want your vote to count? Read before you sign and don't sign any initiative which gives but a choice of two evils. Don't vote yes on any measure which enacts a law requiring a ridiculous % of votes to over turn. We make mistakes but it is our right to make our wrongs right with real choices. Also remember, that any law passed without specific available monies to fund it is not a good law. Instead they are a draw upon the resources we would prefer to spend upon our children's education and welfare. Vote for our children and grandchildren, not for fear mongers who are not willing to be upfront with you in the first place.
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