Court of Appeals of Oregon, 2021

State v. King

State v. King
Court of Appeals of Oregon · Decided May 26, 2021
311 Or. App. 746; 487 P.3d 413

State v. King

Opinion

Submitted April 24, 2020, reversed and remanded May 26, 2021

STATE OF OREGON, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. SUSAN KING, aka Susan M. King, Defendant-Appellant.

Jackson County Circuit Court 17CR40593; A168809 487 P3d 413

Timothy Barnack, Judge.

Ernest G. Lannet, Chief Defender, Criminal Appellate Section, and Neil F. Byl, Deputy Public Defender, Office of Public Defense Services, filed the brief for appellant.

Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, Benjamin Gutman, Solicitor General, and Michael A. Casper, Assistant Attorney General, filed the brief for respondent.

Before Armstrong, Presiding Judge, and Tookey, Judge, and Aoyagi, Judge.

PER CURIAM Reversed and remanded.

Cite as 311 Or App 746 (2021) 747 PER CURIAM Defendant, who was found guilty by a nonunan- imous jury verdict of first-degree manslaughter, contends that the trial court plainly erred in instructing the jury that it could return a nonunanimous verdict and in accepting a nonunanimous verdict. We agree. After the United States Supreme Court decided Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 US ___, 140 S Ct 1390, 206 L Ed 2d 583 (2020), the Oregon Supreme Court held that trial court acceptance of a nonunanimous verdict is plain error. State v. Ulery, 366 Or 500, 504, 464 P3d 1123 (2020). We exercise discretion to correct the error, for the reasons set forth in Ulery. We therefore do not reach defendant’s second assignment of error. We reject defen- dant’s first assignment of error without written discussion.

Reversed and remanded.

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