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    Jeffrey Dale Tiner - Oregon




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    White supremacist convicted in 2000 of the 1993 murder of James Salmu while on parole.

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    Is anyone interested in this guy's real story?

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    Definitely. Anything you care to share would be more than welcome.

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    Judge overturns man’s death sentence

    A Portland judge has overturned Jeffrey Dale Tiner’s May 2000 death sentence for the 1993 murder of Springfield resident James Salmu, saying Tiner wasn’t given a proper defense.

    Tiner’s conviction for aggravated murder in the case still stands. But Multnomah County Circuit Senior Judge Frank Bearden has remanded the case back to Lane County Circuit Court for resentencing.

    That will mean empaneling a new jury to rehear the sentencing phase of Tiner’s case, Lane County Chief Deputy District Attorney Patty Perlow said Monday.

    “It’s discouraging that we have to try these cases again and again and again, but that’s what we do in Ore*gon,” Lane County District Attorney Alex Gardner said. “It’s very time-consuming, and it’s very expensive.”

    Verdicts and sentences are often overturned over “what the public at large sees as legal technicalities,” he said.

    Bearden noted in his ruling, however, that “the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has stated that there is no more important hearing in law or equity than the penalty phase of a capital trial.”

    In a seven-page opinion, Bearden wrote that Tiner’s due process rights were violated when his defense lawyers failed to call two witnesses at sentencing who were available to “portray a more human and less dangerous side” of the convicted killer.

    Defense attorneys Marc Friedman and Clayton Lance also failed to properly counsel Tiner about his allocution, a statement defendants make directly to a jury without subjecting themselves to cross-examination, Bearden found.

    It is likely that “at least one juror would not have voted to impose the death penalty,” the judge wrote, if Tiner’s sister had testified about his childhood abuse, if a Nevada prison warden had testified that Tiner was trusted to use knives in a prison kitchen, and if Tiner had made a different allocution.”

    Tiner will remain on Oregon’s death row pending results of the resentencing, according to Jacob Humphries of the state Department of Corrections.

    Tiner, now 53, was convicted of killing Salmu in March of 1993, then burying his body in the woods 52 miles east of Springfield. Salmu, who died at 34, was missing for more than a year and a half before a mushroom hunter found his skele*tal remains. He had been beaten, stabbed and shot, according to evidence in the case.

    Karlyn Eklof was also convicted of aggravated murder in the case. She is serving two life prison terms.

    Trial evidence indicated that Salmu, a mild-mannered boat builder, had taken Eklof and her three children into his home three months before the murder because they had no place to live. In mid-March, Eklof met Tiner, then newly paroled from a California prison, and invited him to Salmu’s Springfield home for “a vacation,” Tiner told police.

    Prosecutors alleged that Eklof and Tiner attacked Salmu a week later during an argument over their request that he leave his own home so they could be alone. After Tiner killed the 34-year-old Salmu, witnesses testified, he and Eklof replaced carpeting in Salmu’s living room and repainted a bathroom. But police found blood on a bathroom door and molding that was later matched to Salmu.

    Though Tiner was indicted for the murder in 1995, his trial was delayed for nearly five years while the Oregon Court of Appeals considered his pretrial legal claims.

    Bearden, who retired in 2008 after 30 years on the bench, was assigned by the Marion County Circuit Court to rule on Tiner’s motion for post-conviction relief based on his claim of incompetent counsel. That case was filed in Marion County because that court encompasses the Oregon State Penitentiary, where Tiner is being held.

    Salmu’s mother and brother, Theresa Trudo and David Salmu, both of Fresno, said they were surprised Monday to learn of Bearden’s ruling. They declined further comment.

    In his ruling, Bearden noted that Tiner went through three defense lawyers before Lance and Friedman were appointed to handle his case, and that all the attorneys appeared to have trouble working with Tiner.

    Bearden rejected Tiner’s assertion that his conviction should also be overturned, ruling that Lance and Friedman conducted that portion of the trail within “the standard of professional skill and judgment required, given the barriers put up by” Tiner.

    Neither Lance nor Friedman responded Monday to an invitation to comment on Bearden’s decision.

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    Judge: New Trial for Oregon Death Row Inmate in Murder Case

    EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A Lane County judge has set a new trial date for a man previously sentenced to death for the aggravated murder of a Springfield resident in 1993.

    The Register Guard reported Thursday that Jeffrey Dale Tiner's death sentence was overturned in 2011 when a judge found he wasn't given a proper defense during the sentencing phase of his trial.

    In March, the Oregon appeals court went further and found that the 59-year-old Tiner must be retried on the aggravated murder charge and not just resentenced.

    Tiner was convicted in 2000 of intentional murder and aggravated murder in the death of Springfield resident James Salmu.

    A jury found that Tiner killed the 34-year-old Salmu and buried his body in a forest east of Springfield.

    A new trial is set for 2019.

    https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...in-murder-case
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    Man convicted of murdering Springfield boat builder in 2000 returns to court

    By Jack Moran
    The Register-Guard

    More than 18 years after being sentenced to death for murdering a Springfield man in 1993, Jeffrey Dale Tiner returned to Lane County Circuit Court on Monday.

    Tiner, now 60, is back in court because both his aggravated murder conviction and death sentence have been overturned. A conviction for intentional murder — a lesser homicide charge that carries a life sentence — remains intact.

    A new trial on the aggravated murder charges is scheduled for February, although his attorneys on Monday argued before Judge Charles Zennaché that they need additional time to prepare a defense. Prosecutors, however, say the lawyers have represented Tiner in post-conviction matters for a decade and shouldn’t need more time.

    Zennaché didn’t rule Monday on the defense’s bid to reschedule Tiner’s trial, and similarly will wait to rule on a defense request to allow Tiner to continue to be held in the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem until his trial begins.

    Although his death sentence has been overturned, Tiner continues to reside on the prison’s “death row,” which is reserved for inmates convicted of aggravated murder and awaiting execution.

    He apparently wants to stay there, at least for now. Defense attorney Andy Simrin told Zennaché that Tiner is “comfortable” at the penitentiary and perhaps the only reason to move him to the Lane County Jail before the trial starts would be to “harass” him.

    Lane County Assistant District Attorney Erik Hasselman, however, said Tiner should be treated like any other local defendant and be held at the jail in the coming months.

    “That’s what we do with people when they are pending trial,” Hasselman said in court.

    Zennaché said he will speak with Lane County sheriff’s officials about the situation before ruling on the motion. Also unresolved is a request from Tiner’s lawyers to withdraw from the case for an unspecified conflict of interest that another judge will decide.

    If Tiner is given new attorneys, it’s expected that his trial will be postponed.

    Tiner on Monday was escorted into court by three Oregon Department of Corrections transport officers who brought him to Eugene from the Salem prison. He returned to prison after the hearing.

    Tiner was condemned to death for the 1993 murder of Springfield boat builder James Salmu. A Lane County jury in 2000 found Tiner guilty of charges including intentional murder and aggravated murder in the case.

    Salmu had been missing 20 months before a mushroom hunter found his skeletal remains in a forest more than 50 miles east of Springfield. Authorities said Salmu, 34, had been beaten, stabbed and shot before his body was buried in the woods.

    Both Tiner and his then-girlfriend, Karlyn Eklof, were convicted in Salmu’s death. Prosecutors assert the killing happened when Tiner and Eklof attacked Salmu after arguing with him about wanting to be left alone at his home. Salmu had allowed Eklof — who had been homeless — and her children to live with him in the months before he died.

    Tiner’s death sentence was overturned in 2011 when a judge ruled he was not given a proper defense during the sentencing phase of his trial in 2000.

    The Oregon Court of Appeals in March 2017 also sided with Tiner, ruling that Lane County prosecutors had wrongly withheld witness impeachment evidence from Tiner’s attorneys before his trial.

    That evidence included a letter to prosecutors from one of their counterparts in Nevada, who indicated two state witnesses in Tiner’s trial were strongly biased against him; and the fact that a prosecutor had promised to write a letter to a parole board on behalf of one of the witnesses, in exchange for her testimony against Tiner.

    A post-conviction court subsequently directed Lane County officials to retry Tiner for aggravated murder.

    Two inmates have died via lethal injection since Oregon voters reinstated capital punishment in 1984. The state last carried out an execution in 1997. Former Gov. John Kitzhaber announced a state moratorium on capital punishment in 2011, and it has continued under his successor, Gov. Kate Brown.

    https://www.registerguard.com/news/2...turns-to-court

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