Mr. Kellen Russoniello:

Prior to measure 110, long sentences for drug possession were pretty rare. Usually what would happen was the cycle of a person being arrested, detained and then released or, if convicted, they would get a community supervision sentence. This is something I have not mentioned previously. Oregon has a public defender crisis, on top of all its other crises. It has one third the number of public defenders it needs to provide constitutionally adequate representation. That applies across the criminal legal system. By adding these cases back on top of the public defender's dockets, it is likely that in many cases, even if people get charged, the charges will be dropped because they will not have public defence representation.