Arrests Drug Toxicology Court Filings Court Findings Convictions & Assessments Sentencing
The Office of Research and Statistics (ORS) offers this dashboard to show judicial findings and convictions for the most serious DUI charge within the DUI case filings. For analyses involving conviction rates, charges that were dropped down to a final non-DUI charge were excluded - for example, an initial charge of Driving While Ability Impaired that was reduced to a Reckless Driving charge. For analyses involving judicial findings, these charges were classified as "Non-DUI Dispositions."
The following judicial findings were classified as guilty findings and/or convictions:
- Guilty: The defendant either pleads guilty to the charge or is found guilty at trial.
- Deferred judgment and sentence: The defendant enters a conditional guilty plea but the final judgment is postponed, pending conditions of supervision.
- Deferred dismissed: After the successful completion of the deferred judgment.
The following findings were classified as not guilty:
- Dismissed: The prosecution or court does not believe that the evidence will support the charges beyond a reasonable doubt, which is often used as part of a plea deal, where the defendant will plead guilty to some charges in exchange for the dismissal of other charges.
- Not guilty: The jury or judge finds that the prosecution did not prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt in a trial.
- Diversion: A prosecutor may elect not to prosecute and instead offer a diversion program. This results in no charges filed as long as the defendant completes the terms of the diversion.