PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Remember those billboards in downtown Portland that called the city a “Schmidt Show?” So does Multnomah County’s former DA Mike Schmidt. Nearly a year after losing his ...

The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office will end the practice of dismissing jurors without a reason during jury selection for misdemeanor trials, according to a new policy announced Monday by ...

There are no second acts in American lives, the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. But Fitzgerald didn’t say anything about podcasts. And so it goes for former Multnomah County District Attorney ...

Portland’s lame-duck Democratic district attorney is angling to reduce the sentences of several violent criminals, including a convicted murderer, days before his tough-on-crime replacement takes ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Several convicted criminals with a history of violent crime may be released early due to recent moves by District Attorney Mike Schmidt, even as his term as Multnomah County's ...

Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt this week said he plans to prohibit prosecutors from exercising “peremptory challenges” of prospective jurors in misdemeanor trials, saying the practice ...

Portland Mayor says sidewalk cleaning program is part of city's 'renaissance' It’s month four of Portland’s sidewalk cleaning program; Portland Mayor Keith Wilson and small businesses are praising it.

It may come as little consolation to Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt, but the Oregon State Bar has dismissed an election-eve bar complaint that former longtime Multnomah County ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Several convicted criminals and past offenders up for potential reductions to their sentences and criminal charges due to recent Oregon reforms will have to wait at least another ...