Either the state or the defendant may as a matter of right appeal from a judgment in a criminal action in the cases prescribed in ORS 138.010 to 138.310, and not otherwise.
ORS 138.020
Known as the Post-Conviction Hearing Act
The act spans §§ 138–138 (119 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case State v. Sierra (2017)
Most recently applied in State v. Mott (April 2023)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.