Applied in 48 court decisions — leading case State v. Lykins (2015)
Most recently applied in 347 Or. App. 780 - State v. Demby (March 2026)
1971 c.743 §190
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.
(1) A person commits the crime of escape in the third degree if the person escapes from custody.
(2) It is a defense to a prosecution under this section that the person escaping or attempting to escape was in custody pursuant to an illegal arrest.
(3) Escape in the third degree is a Class A misdemeanor.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.