PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A man who fatally stabbed someone in the heart in Clackamas and later beat a jail inmate will serve 25 years in prison.
Eliazar Martinez-Rodriguez, 35, was sentenced for assaulting a jail inmate while charged with murdering 30-year-old Jefferson Smith Cates.
Martinez-Rodriguez killed Cates in June 2024. According to officials, Martinez-Rodriguez and Cates were romantically involved with the same woman…