Michael Bivins, the former Portland journalist who, following a dark turn, went on a hate spree menacing Jewish, Muslim and Black institutions, will spend another year in prison before living under several years of what the judge in the case said he hoped would be very close supervision.

Prosecutors and the Bivins’s defense lawyer agreed on the sentence—which formally includes five years of incarceration and another five of probation. (Functionally, Bivins will serve about a year of additional prison time, given time he’s already served.)

A jury in July convicted Bivins on all 11 charges in his bias crime trial—that’s the term Oregon uses for what are commonly referred to as hate crimes—including convictions for felony arson and criminal mischief.

Over a brief period in spring 2022, m

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