The Oregon Court of Appeals has reversed guilty verdicts against Ian Mackenzie Cranston, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fatally shooting Barry Washington Jr. outside a Bend nightclub in 2021. A Deschutes County court found Cranston guilty of five counts, including first-degree manslaughter {snip}
Ian Cranston and Barry Washington
The appeals court filed its opinion last week. According to court documents, the Deschutes County trial court should have told jurors that Cranston didn’t have “a duty to retreat under Oregon self-defense law.”
The decision comes almost three years after Cranston’s conviction, and days after a memorial plaque was installed in honor of Washington near the site of the shooting.
His death sparked protests against racism in Bend. Washington, who was Black, was unarmed when Cranston, who is white, fatally shot him with a handgun during a fight outside of a nightclub.
Kevin Sali, Cranston’s attorney, emailed a statement {snip}
“We are grateful to the Court of Appeals for recognizing that the jury in the first trial was not instructed properly, and we expect that in the second trial there will be no doubt about Ian’s innocence,” Sali wrote.
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