STATE v. BRANCH

(CC 14CR00250; SC S064318).

408 P.3d 1035 (2018)

362 Or. 351

STATE of Oregon, Respondent on Review, v. Robert L. BRANCH, aka Robert Lee Branch, Jr., aka Rueben Netzer, Petitioner on Review.

Supreme Court of Oregon.

January 19, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brett Allin , Deputy Public Defender, Salem, argued the cause and filed the briefs for the petitioner on review. Also on the briefs was Ernest G. Lannet , Chief Defender, Office of Public Defense Services.

Jacob R. Brown , Assistant Attorney General, Salem, argued the cause and filed the brief for the respondent on review. Also on the brief were Ellen F. Rosenblum , Attorney General, and Benjamin Gutman , Solicitor General.

Before Balmer, Chief Justice, and Kistler, Walters, Nakamoto, Flynn, and Duncan, Justices, and Landau, Senior Justice pro tempore.


This case presents a narrow question regarding the meaning of ORS 162.375(1), which defines the crime of "initiating a false report." Defendant was convicted of that crime based on evidence that, in response to questions from sheriff's deputies about a report that defendant left the scene of a traffic collision without exchanging the required...

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