Areas of Expertise

Expertise:

While Ms. Wood has the experience to defend cases involving any felony or misdemeanor crimes in the state and federal courts, she devotes her practice to the defense of major felony crimes, including all federal felonies and Oregon Measure 11 crimes, and to misdemeanor sex offenses.

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Defense of State Felony Offenses

Attorney Terri Wood has extensive experience in the defense of all violent crimes including aggravated murder, murder, manslaughter, assault, robbery, rape, sodomy, kidnapping, and child sex abuse.
Ms. Wood also has defended numerous property crime cases, including burglaries, thefts, frauds, and forgeries; crimes against the administration of justice, including resisting arrest, escape, and hindering prosecution; and drug and firearms offenses.

Defense of Federal Crimes

Ms. Wood has extensive experience in federal drug trafficking and conspiracy cases, and expertise in Armed Career Criminal and other firearm prosecutions, bank robberies, armed car-jacking, immigration crimes, identity theft, fraud, and federal regulatory crimes including tax fraud, the Lacey Act and the Animal Welfare Act.

Common Defenses

Ms. Wood has experience litigating claims of self-defense, false confession, mental defenses including insanity, mistaken identity, false memories, battered spouse, voluntary intoxication, justification and consent, and illegal search and seizure.

She is knowledgeable in the forensic sciences used in the prosecution and defense of many felonies, including pathology, trace evidence, DNA, ballistics, crime scene reconstruction, criminal profiling, fingerprint comparisons, voiceprint comparisons, and handwriting analysis.

Pre-indictment Representation

Ms. Wood is experienced in representing persons before state and federal grand juries, and in representing persons accused of crimes, before formal charges are filed, in efforts to avoid state or federal prosecution or to obtain reduced charges. She has successfully represented law enforcement officers, attorneys, and other citizens under investigation for crimes to avoid prosecution.

Sentencing Mitigation

From her state death penalty cases and federal practice, Ms. Wood has extensive experience in the development of mitigating evidence and arguments for reduced sentences. She has worked with many experts in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and other counseling professions, and has supervised mitigation investigators.