Ballot Measures November 2

REALITY CHECK: Ballot Measures November 2, 1999 Election � Vote- By-Mail
WON	68	YES	Changes inmate work program (sponsored by Senator Susan Castillo & Senate Minority Leader Kate Brown) REALITY: Measure fixes problems in inmate work program mandate.
The "Mannix Seven"
WON	69	NO	Amends Constitution: Supposedly grants victims constitutional rights in criminal prosecutions. REALITY: Victims already have these rights under Oregon law. Prosecutor will pick who the victim is. Victims have no right to enforce this so-called "constitutional" right.
LOST	70	NO	Amends Constitution: Gives public, through prosecutor, right to demand jury trial in criminal cases. REALITY: Prosecutor can ignore victim (as well as defendant and judge) who does not want to have jury trial (for example: sensational sex crime; DA with political aspirations).
WON	71	NO	Amends Constitution: Limits pretrial release of accused persons. REALITY: Current law provides protection against release of persons accused of violent crimes. Assumes person is guilty if arrested. Costs taxpayers millions for jail space that does not currently exist. Revokes fundamental tenet of legal tradition going back hundreds of years.
LOST	72	NO	Amends Constitution: Allows murder conviction by 11 to 1 jury. REALITY: Currently, murder conviction requires unanimous decision by jury. This is contrary to proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Increases likelihood of more innocent people found guilty. Louisiana is the only state that allows murder conviction by less than 12-0. Juries virtually never hang 11-1; nearly always by a higher ratio. A radical change to a fundamental concept of our legal system whose roots in English common law go back to the Fourteenth Century!
LOST	73	NO	Amends Constitution: Limits immunity from criminal prosecution of persons ordered to testify about conduct. REALITY: Gives state and local prosecutors same kind of unbridled power that special prosecutor Ken Starr used against Susan McDougal. Erodes constitutional protection against self-incrimination. Revokes a fundamental tenet of legal tradition going back hundreds of years.
WON	74	NO	Amends Constitution: Requires terms of imprisonment announced in court to be fully served, with rare exceptions. REALITY: Takes away power from the people and the legislature to change bad sentencing laws. Prohibits release of prisoner if gravely ill even if victim agrees to release.
WON	75	NO	Amends Constitution: Persons convicted of certain crimes cannot serve on grand juries, criminal trial juries. REALITY: Bars persons convicted of felony within last 15 years or "dishonest" or "violent" misdemeanor within last 5 years from serving on criminal juries. Requires state to background check everyone called to jury duty or requires persons to self-report.

WON	76	no � position	Requires cost of roads be split fairly between car & truck drivers.