Ignore the unethical and factually incorrect Oregonian article.

I will later write a detailed explanation of what transpired over an entire year in order to end this way, but in the meantime, I'll leave you with a few facts.

I ended up with a "lawyer" who didn't want to call any witnesses, including not having me testify — he said because he's "not sure what questions the DA will ask".

He also was not interested in any details of the previous year that led to this. He was solely focused on the fact that a police officer lied in order to claim I confessed. My lawyer just wanted to write a book on police corruption.

Nevertheless, the judge had to tell my lawyer on three separate occasions over two days that "the jury still can't hear you, you need to speak up."

So I was found guilty on some of the charges by a non-unanimous jury (which was legal in Oregon at the time).

After reading the verdict, it was too late in the evening, so there were no cops there to escort me to jail. The DA insisted that a cop escort me home and stand guard outside my door.

The judge said "Not necessary. Mr. Goei, go home and turn yourself in on Tuesday at 7:30 am." (It was Friday.) So I was facing a mandatory sentence of minimum 7 years and the Presiding Judge of Washington County trusted me to go home for a long weekend and turn myself in to go to prison. That's how dangerous or criminal he personally thought I was.

Of course I did just as he asked and at sentencing he said:

"I've tried over 130 sex abuse cases but I've never seen one like this. Now I've never done this, but because there was no skin to skin contact nor any genitals involved… I'm going to take this case out of mandatory sentencing and instead give you 3 years."

Only 4 times in the history of Washington County has a case been taken out of mandatory sentencing (Measure 11). Two examples are:

1. A grandpa brushed sand off of his granddaughter's bottom, so he was charged with a felony.
2. A teacher held a kindergarten student on her lap against her chest because he was scared of the loud parade. But because the back of his head touched her breast, she was charged with a Measure 11 felony.

Those are two of the cases that were also taken out of Measure 11 by other judges, but my case was the first that the Presiding Judge found appropriate to remove from Measure 11.

This demonstrates just how "guilty" the Presiding Judge thought I was after hearing the case.

There is so much more that proves my case to be an absolute farce. However, because years later the US Supreme Court ruled that non-unanimous juries are unconstitutional, the charges were dropped from my record and my trial verdict was considered "a hung jury."

So after 14 years, Washington County decided to retry my case.

Nevertheless, the Oregonian won't take down the original (invalid) article and because of that, my life as well as my child's life is continually destroyed with absolutely no justification.

Thanks for reading about this nightmare. I appreciate it — more updates to come.

— Marques