Chapter §17.1 SCOPE

• Jurisdiction: Oregon

§17.1 SCOPE

This chapter covers two topics: (1) the open-courts provision in Article I, section 10, of the Oregon Constitution; and (2) the similar, but distinct, public-trial right for criminal defendants in Article I, section 11, of the Oregon Constitution.

This chapter focuses on the Oregon constitutional provisions and touches on the statutory and federal constitutional rights only briefly. However, consistent with the order of analysis followed in Oregon, this chapter first addresses the statutory...