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STATE v. ROBERTSON

TC 10-80-07971; CA 19337; SC 28280; TC 10-80-07969; CA 19338; SC 28281.

649 P.2d 569 (1982)

293 Or. 402

STATE of Oregon, Respondent On Review, v. Dwight ROBERTSON, Petitioner On Review. State of Oregon, Respondent On Review, v. Reginald Dwayne Young, Petitioner On Review.

Supreme Court of Oregon.

Decided August 3, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth A. Morrow, Eugene, argued the cause for petitioner Dwight Robertson on review. With him on the petition for review was Morrow, McCrea & Divita, P.C., Eugene.

James R. Strickland, Eugene, filed a brief for Reginald Dwayne Young, petitioner on review. With him on the brief was Curtis & Strickland, Eugene.

Darryl L. Larson, Asst. Dist. Atty., Eugene, argued the cause for respondent on review. With him on the brief in the Court of Appeals was J. Pat Horton, Dist. Atty., for Lane County.

Before DENECKE, C.J., and LENT, LINDE, PETERSON, TANZER and CAMPBELL, JJ.

LINDE, Justice.

The issue to be decided is the constitutional validity of a statute creating and defining the crime of "coercion." Defendants were indicted under one subsection of the statute, ORS 163.275(1)(e), which makes it a crime to compel or induce another person to engage in conduct from which he has the legal right to abstain by causing him to fear the disclosure of discreditable assertions about some person.1 Defendants demurred...

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