@theoregonian The Oregon Court of Appeals this week released the body camera footage judges reviewed that captured a Washington County sheriff’s deputy’s indecipherable Miranda warnings to a man stopped on suspicion of riding a motorcycle intoxicated. The court threw out Alex Gerkin’s driving under the influence of intoxicants conviction after reviewing the video. Read more at the link in our bio.
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September 4, 2026
The driver may be drunk, but it's the cop whose speech is slurred.
Oregon court throws out the charges:
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Isn’t the remedy to exclude any statements after the defective warning, not to dismiss charges?
One of the funny things about vintage TV shows is the cop whipping out a card to read the Miranda warning to perps. But everyone pretty much had it memorized by 68 or so. Now it’s so embedded in my mind I can rattle it off easily.
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