Joshua Marquis

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Marquis coauthored Debating the Death Penalty, [5] and numerous other articles that were cited by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia [6] in his concurrence in the Supreme Court's decision in Kansas v. Marsh. [7] Marquis worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Journal in the early 1980s and the speechwriter to California Attorney General John Van de Kamp in the mid-1980s.

Marquis is often solicited to write articles on the death penalty, such as the lead article in a special section published by the Los Angeles Times prior to the execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams. [8]

Marquis led the prosecution of double murderer Randy Lee Guzek, Oregon v. Guzek, who murdered Rod and Lois Houser in 1987 in their home north of Redmond, Oregon. Marquis was the sole or lead prosecutor in three separate re-sentencing trials held in Deschutes County, Oregon (Bend) in 1991, 1997 and 2010. Guzek's death sentence was affirmed by the Oregon Supreme Court in 2015 and the United States Supreme Court declined to grant cert in 2017 . While a criminal defense attorney in Eugene, Oregon in 1989-1990 Marquis was lead defense counsel in the cases of two men charged with capital murder - Javier Blanco and Allen Flower - neither man was sentenced to death.

In October 2011 Marquis was one of four panelists invited to discuss capital punishment at the New Yorker Festival on a panel that also included Innocence Project founder Barry Scheck, death penalty opponent Danalynn Recer, and crime victim's advocate Marc Klaas. CNN's Jeffrey Toobin moderated the event at the Directors Guild Theater in Manhattan, New York City. [9]

Other activities

Marquis also served on Oregon's Criminal Justice Commission from 2005 to 2009, [10] served as vice chair of the Animal Legal Defense Fund. [11] and was elected in August 2009 to the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Leadership Council for a three year term. Marquis was a member of the Board of Directors of the National District Attorneys Association from 1997 until his appointment as a Circuit Judge Pro Tem in 2019.

In 1995 Marquis received the Animal Legal Defense Fund's "Jolene Malone Aggressive Enforcement Award" in recognition of his work on a particularly difficult animal abuse case [12] and in 2006 was the recipient of the Association of Government Attorneys in Capital Litigation's William J. Schaefer Award. [13]

In 2014 Marquis was named by the ALDF as one of the "Top Ten Animal Defenders".

Marquis is an outspoken prosecutor who is frequently asked to "special prosecute" conflict of interest cases for other District Attorneys. He has successfully prosecuted a Benton County lawyer, [14] a former courtroom rival, [15] and the 1985 case in which Marquis defeated famed defense attorney Gerry Spence when Michael Jones was convicted (later overturned), which became the subject of Spence's 2003 book, The Smoking Gun. [16] [17] On January 28, 1986, when Judge Haas took over the case of Sandra Jones (Michael Jones' mother) from several other judges, the entire Lincoln County D.A.'s Office - including Marquis - was disqualified by the judge, Harl H. Haas, Jr., with Marquis then filing a judicial fitness complaint. [17]

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Notes
  1. ↑ James Pitkin (January 23, 2008). "Killing Time: Dead Men Waiting on Oregon's Death Row". Willamette Week . Archived from the original on January 24, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
  2. 1 2 "Profile: Joshua Marquis" (PDF). Clatsop County, Oregon. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2008-12-23.
  3. ↑ Miner, Michael (2000-06-09). "Prosecutors vs. Journalists: The Gloves Are Off". Chicago Reader . Retrieved 2008-12-22.
  4. ↑ Keep Josh Marquis Our District Attorney Committee. "Joshua Marquis". Voters' Pamphlet, Oregon Primary Election, May 16, 2006. Oregon Secretary of State . Retrieved 2008-12-22.
  5. ↑ Debating the Death Penalty. Oxford University Press. 2004.
  6. ↑ Marquis, Joshua (2006-01-26). "The Innocent and the Shammed". The New York Times . Retrieved 2008-12-22.
  7. ↑ "Kansas v. Marsh" (PDF). Supreme Court of the United States . Retrieved 2008-12-22.
  8. ↑ Marquis, Joshua (2005-12-04). "He's a murderer. He should die". Opinion. Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2008-12-22.
  9. ↑ "People - Photos - Zimbio".
  10. ↑ "Criminal Justice Commission Members". State of Oregon . Retrieved 2008-12-22.
  11. ↑ "Executive Staff & Board". Animal Legal Defense Fund . Retrieved 2008-12-22.
  12. ↑ "Profile of an Animal Abuser". Ark Online. Retrieved 2008-12-22.
  13. ↑ "Oregon State Bar Bulletin — October 2006". Oregon State Bar . Retrieved 2008-12-22.
  14. ↑ "The thong arm of the law". Willamette Week. 2005-03-30. Retrieved 2008-12-22.
  15. ↑ Budnick, Nick (2005-11-16). "Bad Blood: How a lawyer once suspected of sexual abuse gets taxpayer money". Willamette Week . Retrieved 2008-12-22.
  16. ↑ Dana K. Cole, Gerry Spence's The Smoking Gun As A Teaching Tool (2004)
  17. 1 2 Roberts, Michelle (January 8, 2001). "Success of drug court is judge's legacy". The Oregonian. p. B1.
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Joshua Marquis
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District Attorney of Clatsop County
In office
1994–2018