Oregon Revised Statutes

Or. Rev. Stat. § 135.070 (2026)

Informing defendant as to charge, right to counsel, use of statement and preliminary hearing

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      135.070 Informing defendant as to charge, right to counsel, use of statement and preliminary hearing. When the defendant against whom an information has been filed in a preliminary proceeding appears before a magistrate on a charge of having committed a crime punishable as a felony, before any further proceedings are had the magistrate shall read to the defendant the information and shall inform the defendant:

      (1) Of the defendant’s right to the aid of counsel, that the defendant is not required to make a statement and that any statement made by the defendant may be used against the defendant.

      (2) That the defendant is entitled to a preliminary hearing and of the nature of a preliminary hearing. If a preliminary hearing is requested, it shall be held as soon as practicable but in any event within five judicial days if the defendant is in custody or within 30 days if the defendant is not in custody. The time may be extended for good cause shown.

      (3) That if the defendant is on parole, evidence received and the order of the court at the preliminary hearing may be used by the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision to establish that probable cause exists to believe that a violation of a condition of parole has occurred; and further, that should the defendant waive the defendant’s right to a preliminary hearing, such waiver shall also constitute a waiver of a hearing by the board to determine whether there is probable cause to believe that a violation of one or more of the conditions of parole has occurred. [Formerly 133.610; 1981 c.644 §2; 1997 c.823 §1; 2013 c.74 §1]

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 20 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1979–2022 · leading case: State v. Smith, 725 P.2d 894 (Or. 1986).
State v. Smith, 725 P.2d 894 (Or. 1986). · cites it 30× “115: "If the defendant waives the right of the defendant to make a statement, the magistrate shall make a memorandum thereof in the proceedings; but the fact of the waiver cannot be used against the defendant on the trial.”
State v. Clark, 630 P.2d 810 (Or. 1981). · cites it 4× “[3] These include the right to the aid of counsel, ORS 135.070, 135.075; the right to subpoena witnesses, ORS 135.”
State v. Wright, 843 P.2d 436 (Or. 1992). · cites it 8× “" [6] The problem with that argument is that ORS 135.070 to 135.225 reveal that the "preliminary hearing" to which ORS 135.”
State v. Freeland, 667 P.2d 509 (Or. 1983). · cites it 2× “100; and ultimately, the right to the judgment of a trained judicial officer whether probable cause for the prosecution has been shown, based on evidence which the person to be charged could challenge or meet by opposing evidence or by his own statement, if he chose to do so.”
State v. Gray, 515 P.3d 348 (Or. 2022). · cites it 2× ““(d) Notwithstanding ORS 135.070 and paragraph (c) of this subsection, in order to accommodate a schedul- ing conflict, upon the request of the defendant the time limit for holding a preliminary hearing described in ORS 135.”
State v. Meyrick, 831 P.2d 666 (Or. 1992). “” ORS 135.070 requires a preliminary hearing magistrate to inform the defendant of the right “to the aid of counsel.”
State v. Jackson, 655 P.2d 592 (Or. Ct. App. 1982). · cites it 2× “The court conducted defendant's initial appearance in compliance with ORS 135.070 and did not delay that hearing to gain some advantage over defendant.”
State v. Thompson-Seed, 986 P.2d 732 (Or. Ct. App. 1999). “435, for another example, provides that evidence obtained directly or indirectly as a result of a magistrate failing to provide the advice *489 of rights required in ORS 135.070 is inadmissible. The state’s reading of ORS 136.”
State v. Wright, 829 P.2d 93 (Or. Ct. App. 1992). · cites it 2× “ORS 135.070 et seq. Hearings on motions to suppress under ORS chapter 135 are omnibus hearings authorized by ORS 135.”
State v. Holliday, 824 P.2d 1148 (Or. Ct. App. 1992). “The timing of the series of court proceedings is consistent with the processing of a single offense that occurred in January, 1976, for which defendant was arraigned in February and then indicted within the five-day period before a preliminary hearing would have been required…”
State v. Vasquez-Hernandez, 977 P.2d 400 (Or. Ct. App. 1999). · cites it 2× “Also because of this, the Defendant was not given a right to provide this statement to the Grand Jury as required by ORS 135.105. "3. Approximately two and a half days after the arrest, the police officers came to his room and took a statement.”
State v. Freeland, 647 P.2d 966 (Or. Ct. App. 1982). · cites it 2× “The complexty of the case is also relevant to the prosecuting attorney’s bility to prepare the case for a preliminary hearing, ecause of local judicial constraints (apparently based on rmer ORS 135.070), a preliminary hearing must be held ithin five days or as soon as possible…”
— Or. Rev. Stat. § 135.070(1) — 1 case
State v. Smith, 725 P.2d 894 (Or. 1986). “115: "If the defendant waives the right of the defendant to make a statement, the magistrate shall make a memorandum thereof in the proceedings; but the fact of the waiver cannot be used against the defendant on the trial.”
— Or. Rev. Stat. § 135.070(2) — 1 case
State v. Gray, 515 P.3d 348 (Or. 2022). ““(d) Notwithstanding ORS 135.070 and paragraph (c) of this subsection, in order to accommodate a schedul- ing conflict, upon the request of the defendant the time limit for holding a preliminary hearing described in ORS 135.”
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