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Wealthy sex offender reduces(?) prison sentence through plea deal giving $1.6 million (payoff?) to victim

By Douglas A. Berman

I just came across this fascinating state sentencing story from The Oregonean, which is headlined "Portland multimillionaire pleads guilty to molesting neighbor boy, agrees to pay victim $1.6 million."  Here are the details of a story that raises a host of substantive and procedural sentencing issues: A Portland multimillionaire who repeatedly molested a neighborhood boy has agreed to pay his victim $1.6 million and spend about nine years in prison. The deal, approved Tuesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court, is unusual because most defendants haven't accumulated the wealth of Scott Raymond Strickland -- a former doctor and Alaska Airlines flight attendant, said Josh Lamborn, the civil attorney for the victim.  Until last year, Lamborn worked as a prosecutor, specializing in child sexual abuse cases, and he now represents victims of sexual abuse, among others...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 21, 2010 (boomark / email).