State Ex Rel. Oliver v. Crookham

This is one of three mandamus cases decided this date 1 involving the constitutionality and application of ORS 14.250-14.270, the judicial disqualification statutes. In this case, relator, a defendant in a criminal case, filed a motion for a change of judge supported by an affidavit asserting that the relator could not receive a fair trial before the judge to whom the case was assigned. Defendant, the then presiding judge of the Circuit Court for Multnomah County, denied relator’s motion after a hearing on grounds that relator had failed to show any actual prejudice, that the motion had been…