Alanna Partin, the Sweet Home woman arrested in downtown Corvallis in November after she allegedly reached for a handgun during a traffic stop, appears to be mounting a sovereign citizen defense, a legal tactic that denies the validity of the U.S. judicial system. Partin, 38, was in Benton County Circuit Court on Thursday morning for a status check in her case. She is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, interfering with a peace officer and failure to carry or present a driver’s license. The firearms charge carries a potential five-year sentence.
She also had an AR-15 with no serial number.
Sweet Home? Just a guess, but her sweet home's likely to be the Coffee Creek state pen for the next few years. Hope she's got someone lined up to look after her trailer.
After arguing with the judge for a while, she started to leave - at which point the judge informed her that she'd be immediately jailed if she walked out the door. She claims to be entitled to compensation of "not less than $100 trillion".
Insanity Defendants:
Those freed without ongoing supervision and care because of a state time limit commit crimes at twice the rate as a smaller group freed because the Psychiatric Security Review Board specifically concluded they would not be a danger if on their own, according to a Malheur Enterprise and ProPublica analysis. Oregon is one of five states that frees insanity defendants when they’ve reached their maximum prison sentence, without weighing a person’s health and danger.
One such guy is Sean Rieschel, of Newport, Oregon:
In 2010, Rieschel, then 39, faced an Oregon circuit court judge for his 25th criminal case.
He was found guilty but insane after assaulting a woman in Newport, and was sent to the state hospital in Salem, Oregon - but he was only sentenced to five years. Within months after he was cut loose, he was back in handcuffs again.
And the merry go-round continues to spin.