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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">From DOJ’s Appellate Update</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Balance, balance, balance. And then balance some more.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">EVIDENCE—O</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">THER
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">A</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">CTS</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">:
When defendant asked court to exclude evidence<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">based on OEC 403, trial court erred in admitting the evidence as “relevant” without<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">making a record indicating that it had engaged in the necessary balancing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">State v. Alvarado</span></i></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">, 288 Or
App 752, __ P3d __ (2017) (<i>per curiam</i>) (Marion)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">(AAG Shannon Reel). Defendant’s four-year-old daughter drowned in the bathtub, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">she was charged with first-degree manslaughter. At trial, she objected to the admission of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">a video depicting her and her boyfriend, Elliot, interacting with her children, including<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">the decedent. The video depicts Elliot ordering the children to use racial epithets and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">otherwise controlling their behavior and movement. Defendant argued that the video was<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">not relevant under OEC 401, or alternatively, that it should be excluded under OEC 403,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">and she asked the court to conduct OEC 403 balancing. The trial court (Judge Dale<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Penn) overruled the objection, ruling that the evidence was relevant but without<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">specifically addressing OEC 403. Defendant was found guilty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Held</span></i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">: Reversed and remanded. [1]
Although the video was relevant, the trial court<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">erred when it failed to adequately demonstrate on the record that it had engaged in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">OEC 403 balancing under
<i>State v. Mayfield</i>, 302 Or 631 (1987)—<i>i.e</i>., the trial court’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">explanation when it admitted the video failed to show “an assessment of the quantum of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">probative value of the evidence, or an assessment of the prejudice, or a balancing of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">competing considerations.”
<i>See State v. Anderson</i>, 282 Or App 24, <i>rev allowed </i>(2016).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">[2] The error was not harmless, given that the state’s theory at trial “was that defendant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">knew of the control and abuse Elliott perpetrated on the children, and effectively<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">acquiesced to that abuse.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/A159997.pdf">http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/A159997.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#1F497D">Erin S. Greenawald</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#1F497D">Sr. Assistant Attorney General | DA/LE Assistance| Criminal Justice Division<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#1F497D">Oregon Department of Justice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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