A judge has ordered a pause on early releases of prisoners who committed crimes as juveniles, granting in part the relief sought in a lawsuit filed against Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, by two district attorneys and four family members of homicide victims. Brown has granted early release to nearly 1,200 convicted felons, including 10 convicted murderers, since March 1, 2020. Marion County Circuit Court Judge David Leith ruled on March 1 that the governor had unlawfully conferred her clemency powers to the Oregon Parole Board. “The board lacked delegated authority to hear the parole cases of the offenders at issue,” Leith wrote in his ruling. “It was only the [Governor’s] clemency order that purported to provide that authority.” According to Linn County District Attorney Doug Marteeny, a petitioner in the suit, that transfer of authority shielded Brown from accountability for commuting the sentences of inmates convicted of violent …