STATE v. TATE

(CC 0600065CR; CA A134222; SC S056904).

220 P.3d 1176 (2009)

347 Or. 318

STATE of Oregon, Respondent on Review, v. Jeremy Eugene TATE, Petitioner on Review.

Supreme Court of Oregon.

Decided November 19, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc Brown, Deputy Public Defender, Salem, argued the cause and filed the brief for petitioner on review. With him on the brief was Peter Gartlan, Chief Defender, Office of Public Defense Services, Salem.

Tiffany Keast, Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause and filed the brief for respondent on review. With her on the brief were John R. Kroger, Attorney General, and Jerome Lidz, Solicitor General.


BALMER, J.

The issue in this criminal case is the proper interpretation of the term "corrections officer" as used in ORS 163.208(1),1 which defines the crime of "assaulting a public safety officer" to include an assault on a "corrections officer." Defendant assaulted a uniformed guard and employee of Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facilities (NORCOR), a correctional facility formed pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement between...

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