The Oregon State Bar’s State Professional Responsibility Board has found former Wasco County District Attorney Eric Nisley and former Deputy District Attorney Leslie Wolf did not violate state’s Rules of Professional Conduct.  Current Wasco County District Attorney Matthew Ellis had filed a complaint against Nisley and Wolf, alleging the pair hid evidence that former The Dalles Police Department officer Jeffrey Kienlen had been found to be untruthful by the department, after Ellis in 2021 found a notice of Kienlen’s demotion from sergeant to police officer in February 2011 in a desk drawer shortly after taking office.  But the board wrote in its decision that it could not find clear and convincing evidence either Nisley or Wolf violated any ethics rules.  Ellis, a former defense attorney, claimed Nisley and Wolf should have provided that document to defense counsels in various prosecutions after the notice, and did in 2022 conduct a hearing that determine Kienlen would be disqualified as a witness in Wasco County prosecutions.