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ORS 138.222

Known as the Post-Conviction Hearing Act

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

Applied in 112 court decisions — leading case State v. McAnulty (2014)

Most recently applied in State v. Gardner-Rolph (December 2025)

How often courts cite this section

201320202025220
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[1989 c.790 §21; 1993 c.692 §2; 1993 c.698 §1; 1997 c.852 §9; 2001 c.644 §3; 2003 c.737 §102; 2005 c.563 §1; repealed by 2017 c.529 §26]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.