‘I Didn’t Do It’: Falsely Accused, Forced to Wait; How Oregon’s Public Defender Crisis Trapped a Black Mother of Six and Led to the Dismissal of More than 1,400 Cases
Oregon resident Corshelle Jenkins was charged for a crime she did not commit in August 2023, accused of shoplifting pink boots from Nordstrom while she was actually at her job at a senior living facility. But the 36-year-old Black mother of six did not learn about this charge until May 2025, when she received a…
