Shane Hall stays in jail after hearing

Shane Hall, a former Sisters pastor charged with sexual abuse of a minor, remains in jail after a Thursday, February 23, arraignment on the revocation of his conditional release.

Two Sisters residents told police Hall was drinking beer at Bronco Billy’s Ranch Grill & Saloon on February 11. Hall’s conditions of release on the sex abuse charges forbid him to drink alcohol or enter a bar. Hall was arrested February 13 for the alleged violation.

A hearing on the revocation was set for March 9 at 8:45 a.m. before Judge Michael Sullivan.

“We wanted a hearing date a whole lot sooner,” said Hall’s attorney, John Halpern, Jr.

Several members of Hall’s family attended the February 23 hearing but were not allowed to testify. Halpern told The Nugget that he has an affidavit from “a number of people who will attest to the fact, who will swear, that he was at his sister’s home the entire day of February 11.”

Hall was to face trial this month in a separate case involving alleged stalking, menacing and telephonic harassment of a woman who was formerly a member of Hall’s congregation. According to the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office, Halpern asked Judge Michael Adler for a postponement of that trial, which Adler granted.

The trial date was reset for April 3.