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Good evening,
If you’d like to chat with Lookout staff — yes, in real life! — come visit us tomorrow (Wednesday, June 24) at Eugene Public Library downtown.
We’ll be all ears in the Emerald Room, on the second floor. Drop in anytime from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with questions, thoughts, opinions, criticism (hopefully the constructive kind), whatever. Different members of the staff will be rotating in and out.
Now, the news.
Justice correspondent Jaime Adame reports that a Lane County murder conviction from 1991 has been tossed out. Oregon has a new law that lists types of forensic science that are now discredited. Among those is “bite-mark analysis,” which was used by prosecutors in the trial of Robert Lyons — who was found guilty in the 1989 death of Lori Stabenow at a motel on Sixth Avenue in Eugene. The district attorney will decide whether to retry Lyon, who remains in prison.
The Springfield school board on Monday OK’d the contracts of the district’s incoming interim superintendent, and its new assistant superintendent, who both start work July 1. Lilly St. Angelo was at the board meeting, where members of the community continued criticism of the district’s plan to eliminate its Spanish dual immersion program.
The body of an 88-year-old woman from Lorane was found Monday in steep terrain off a logging road outside Cottage Grove. Marjorie Ann Gray had been reported missing June 17, officials said, adding that there was no evidence of a crime. Jaime Adame has the story.
The City Club of Eugene this Friday will feature three guests discussing the emerald ash borer, an invasive wood-boring beetle that threatens Willamette Valley ash trees.
Who’s in our Community Voices section today?
- Tom Derungs of Eugene says the Trump administration’s effort to repeal the Roadless Rule would only make our wildfire situation worse.
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Conviction of man in 1989 Eugene murder is tossed out under new ‘junk science’ law
By Jaime Adame
Robert Lyons was found guilty in the death of Lori Stabenow. The trial involved bite-mark analysis, a discredited forensic science.
Enjoy your evening,
Bob
