Oregon’s top court has declined to compel the social media giant Meta to release records that could be relevant to a Salem man’s upcoming murder trial.
Justices for the Oregon Supreme Court wrote in a recent briefing that attorneys representing David Ayon-Urbano had not yet proved that the high court’s “extraordinary” intervention is necessary to obtain the records, which may or may not bolster his self-defense claims.
Ayon-Urbano shot and killed 16-year-old Hector de Jesus Gonzalez Mendoza the evening of June 23, 2024, during a late-night encounter outside Salem. Ayon-Urbano, who was 19 at the time, has argued in court that he was caught in the crossfire of gang violence and that another teen orchestrated the fatal encounter…