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ORS 138.083

Known as the Post-Conviction Hearing Act

The act spans §§ 138–138 (119 sections).

Applied in 33 court decisions — leading case State v. Civil (2017)

Most recently applied in 338 Or. App. 545 - State v. Moon (March 2025)

How often courts cite this section

20132020202570
citing decisions per year

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.

[1989 c.790 §20; 1995 c.109 §1; 1997 c.389 §2; 2003 c.576 §165; 2007 c.547 §3; 2013 c.153 §1; repealed by 2017 c.529 §26]

Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.