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Posted on 01/01/2025 4:06:57 PM PST by Libloather
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 office.
Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt, who was voted out of office on Election Day, petitioned an Oregon judge on Monday to reconsider the sentences of eight individuals – which could result in reduced charges and see the convicts freed from prison, according to Oregon Live.
“These have all the appearance of a last-minute giveaway,” Multnomah County District Attorney-elect Nathan Vasquez, the Republican-turned-independent who defeated Schmidt, told the outlet.
“They’re extremely violent individuals who have committed horrible crimes, and they’re being given some kind of a break,” added Vasquez, who starts his term on Jan. 6.
Frank Swopes Jr., who was convicted of felony murder for the death of 75-year-old Jean Stevenson during a December 1993 home invasion, is among the violent offenders Schmidt is seeking to free.
Swopes Jr., 62, went on to commit another violent crime just a week after his accomplice killed Stevenson by pushing her on the floor during the robbery.
In the second robbery, Swopes Jr. tied a 76-year-old woman to her bed, “terrorized” her and “touched her sexually” after breaking into her home, according to court documents reviewed by Oregon Live.
The elderly victim also indicated that she believed Swopes Jr. “either urinated or ejaculated on her” during the home invasion.
Swopes Jr. has served 32 years of a 35-year prison sentence for his crimes.
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Good for him. That is what the people get for electing the son of a bitch.
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Democrats are evil vermin, a plague on the US.
I hope people are paying attention. Leftists are turning loose the Vandals.
“That’s where the Sasquatches are”
I wish the Susquatches would come down from the woods and devour the cheating demonrats in Portland.
Oregon would go red!
We would even be willing to elect a Susquatch governor if they would help us out.
Portland has been totally destroyed by filthy, blue vermin.
No one goes there anymore.
Corrupt acts should buy him a prison sentence.
Someone who has been incarcerated for 30 years is in for quite a shock.
Democrats are evil, twisted and vindictive. A good number of them should be in mental asylums.
“Someone who has been incarcerated for 30 years is in for quite a shock.”
He’ll be begging to be back in the state penitentiary!
They are so Woke nutty that they can't help themselves.
Maybe we are seeing the end of the Democraps, they've lost their marbles a long time ago.
I hope so.
And hopefully, this will be appalling to many who call themselves democrats.
However, hard core leftists won’t be fazed. I take an occasional foray over to DU. They are batcr@p crazy with hate over there.
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