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ORS 161.620

Known as the Oregon Criminal Code

The act spans §§ 161–161 (150 sections).

Applied in 32 court decisions — leading case Thompson v. Oklahoma (1988)

Most recently applied in Criminal Justice Reform Clinic v. Board of Parole (July 2021)

1985 c.631 §9; 1989 c.720 §3; 1993 c.33 §306; 1993 c.546 §119; 1995 c.422 §131y; 1999 c.951 §2; 2019 c.634 §8

How often courts cite this section

1988199020002010202150
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.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a sentence imposed upon any person waived under ORS 419C.349, 419C.352, 419C.364 or 419C.370 shall not include any sentence of death or life imprisonment without the possibility of release or parole nor imposition of any mandatory minimum sentence except that a mandatory minimum sentence under:

(1) ORS 137.707 shall be imposed, except as provided in ORS 137.712;

(2) ORS 163.105 (1)(c) shall be imposed; and

(3) ORS 161.610 may be imposed.

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