2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
ORS Volume 4, Chapters 131 - 170
ORS Chapter 137
137.085 Age and physical disability of victim as factors in sentencing.


OR Rev Stat § 137.085 (through Leg Sess 2011) What's This?

When a court sentences a defendant convicted of any crime involving a physical or sexual assault, the court shall give consideration to a victim s particular vulnerability to injury in such case, due to the victim s youth, advanced age or physical disability. Such particular vulnerability of the victim is a fact enhancing the seriousness of any assault, and the court shall consider it as such in imposing the sentence within the limits otherwise provided by law. [1985 c.767 1]

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