State v. Batson

*177JOSEPH, J.

Defendant appeals his conviction after trial to the court of attempted burglary in the first degree. ORS 164.225; 164.405. He raises three assignments of error.

The facts can be briefly stated. A police officer was called to a residential neighborhood at approximately 4 a.m. by a person who reported that after hearing sharp metallic sounds from the house next door she looked out her window and saw a man standing at the house, running his hand around the edge of a window. When he arrived at the house, the officer found that a screen had been removed from a window. As he prepared to…