Towns v. Hale

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a matter was preserved when the policies underlying the preserva- tion requirement were “obviously served”
• observing that, when considering whether to consent to a jury waiver, “the trial court’s focus, with regard to protect- ing a defendant’s rights, should be on whether a defendant’s jury waiver is valid; that is, whether the waiver is voluntarily and knowingly made”
• explain- ing that providing the trial court “the opportunity to fully consider and rule in the first instance” is among the policies served by the preservation requirement
• cit- ing State v. Parkins, 346 Or 333, 340-41, 211 P3d 262 (2009)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).