Chl denied

[Nick Burkhardt]

If you really need an appointment to see your local sheriff there is a problem or it is over something like, "When do we meet with the Sheriff"?

We just wanted to ask him why it took months to get a CHL appointment when Oregon State law required a maximum of 45 days. The clerk said that she had no knowledge of such law.

His absence from the department buildings and jail has been well documented and brought up by his opponent in the last election.

 

[Silver Hand]

We just wanted to ask him why it took months to get a CHL appointment when Oregon State law required a maximum of 45 days. The clerk said that she had no knowledge of such law.

His absence from the department buildings and jail has been well documented and brought up by his opponent in the last election.

So vote for his opponent.
He does have a job to do. One of the Sheriffs I know was taking and delivering fire in the middle of the afternoon, wile alone with no back up for some time.
I am sure he was thinking just of you at the time.
Silver Hand

 

[Skier]

After reading the entire thread, with lots of good input, I'd use all that input to come up with what I think would be the most pragmatic approach:

1. Gather official info/reports on the incident from the agency that took you into custody, so you have the maximum amount of info you can on what the government has documented about the incident.

2. Call around to a bunch of lawyers that offer free initial consultation, tell them your concern and the info you learned in step 1. (I did something like this when a car dealer was trying to rip me off, and I got some great advice, as well as a couple specific legal terms to use in my written correspondence with the dealers like "dealer in kind" and "unwind the deal," etc, and that really helped me sounds like I knew what I was talking about, and what my rights were, and ultimately, the dealer dropped their attempt to rip me off, with the only stipulation that I wasn't allowed to shop at their location for the period of 1 year, which I was absolutely fine with). Gather as much info as you can for free.

3. Unless the above info strongly contradicts... Go meet with the Sheriff in person, with your wife, maybe even offer to leave the room, so she can speak absolutely freely, and just have a nice respectful talk with him. Hopefully resolving the issue, free of charge. Make sure you don't say or do anything that might negatively impact step 4, if required.

4. If the above doesn't work, THEN start shelling out the money to work more directly with an attorney that specializes in this kind of work, and follow whatever further course of action that they suggest.

That said, I'm the kind of guy that doesn't mind reading legal documents, court rulings, and researching the heck out of stuff, to be able to present my best possible "case" or argument about any given topic. On the other hand, people who don't like to read/research and/or have a difficult time staying calm and discussing complex topics/issues, should probably just skip to step 4.