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Activist's arson sentence reduced.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-FEB-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Activist's arson sentence reduced.(Courts)(Jeffrey Luers, convicted of 10 felonies related to Eugene arsons, could be released in 2009)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Rebecca Taylor The Register-Guard

Environmental activist Jeffrey Michael Luers will serve less than half of his original 22-year prison sentence under a resentencing agreement approved Thursday by Lane County Circuit Judge Jack Billings.

With credit for time served and good behavior, Luers, 29, could be freed by December 2009, his attorneys said.

Luers has been in prison since his 2001 conviction for burning three sport utility vehicles at the former Romania truck lot and for trying to set fire to the Tyree Oil Co. in Eugene.

Former Lane County Circuit Judge Lyle Velure sentenced him to 22 years and eight months, a punishment some activists considered disproportionately harsh because no one was injured and damage to the SUVs was estimated at only $28,000.

The Oregon Court of Appeals overturned the sentence last year and remanded the case back to...

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