State of Oregon v. Dayton Leroy Rogers, a/k/a The Molalla Forest Murder

Oregon City, Organ criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with Defendant charged with multiple murders.



Dayton Leroy Rogers, aka The Molalla Forest Murderer, age 68, was convicted of murdering 6 women, whose bodies were found in a forest near Molalla in 1987.





In 1989, defendant was found guilty of multiple counts of aggravated murder in six consolidated cases and sentenced to death. In his initial appeal, we affirmed his convictions but reversed his death sentences and remanded for resentencing. State v. Rogers , 313 Or. 356, 836 P.2d 1308 (1992) ( Rogers I ). We have reversed sentences of death in this case and remanded for resentencing on two subsequent occasions, most recently in 2012. See State v. Rogers , 330 Or. 282, 4 P.3d 1261 (2000) ( Rogers II ); State v. Rogers , 352 Or. 510, 288 P.3d 544 (2012) ( Rogers III ). In his fourth penalty-phase trial, in 2015, defendant again received a sentence of death in each of the consolidated cases. This is an automatic and direct review of those sentences. ORS 138.052(1). For the reasons set out below, we reverse defendant's sentences of death and remand this case to the trial court for resentencing.

State v. Rogers, 368 Or. 695, 499 P.3d 45 (Or. 2021)

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