STATE v. SEAMONS

(C 97-2754 CR; CA A103744)

13 P.3d 573 (2000)

170 Or. App. 582

STATE of Oregon, Respondent, v. Walter Carzil SEAMONS, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Decided November 1, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Lerner argued the cause and filed the brief for appellant.

Ann Kelley, Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent. With her on the brief were Hardy Myers, Attorney General, and Michael D. Reynolds, Solicitor General.

Before LANDAU, Presiding Judge, and LINDER and BREWER, Judges.


LANDAU, P.J.

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for second-degree robbery, ORS 164.405, second-degree theft, ORS 164.046, and third-degree escape, ORS 162.165. He assigns error to the trial court's refusal to permit him to present a choice of evils defense and to the court's failure to exclude evidence of a prior conviction. We affirm.

The relevant facts are not in dispute. A police officer recruited defendant, a heroin addict, to sell heroin. Initially...

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