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State v. Knight

Citations

  • 981 P.2d 819
  • 160 Or. App. 395
  • 1999 Ore. App. LEXIS 729

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding that the defendant’s actions constituted two discrete decisions to commit separate entries and therefore to commit two separate burglaries
  • recognizing ORS 131.505(4) definition of “criminal episode” as appropriate to use in assessing whether convictions arise out of separate criminal episodes under Bucholz
  • no abuse of discretion where the bases for the defendant’s motion for a continuance were “reasonably avoidable”
  • a finding for Bucholz purposes requires finding described in ORS 131.505(4), which defines “separate criminal episode”
  • “The phrase ‘same act or transaction’ is synonymous with the term ‘criminal episode.’ ” (citing State v. Boyd, 271 Or 558, 565-66, 533 P2d 795 (1975))
  • no abuse of discretion where the bases for the defendant’s motion for a continuance were “reasonably avoidable”

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Judges: Edmonds, Armstrong, Brewer

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