State v. Quinn

Defendant was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. He appealed to the Court of Appeals, which dismissed his appeal, citing the parallel case of State v. Warren, 46 Or App 253, 611 P2d 342 (1980). In Warren, the Court of Appeals dismissed an appeal of a murder conviction and death sentence on the ground that it had no jurisdiction because ORS 163.116(5) provided for automatic review by the Supreme Court as the sole means of appeal in such a case.1 We granted review to determine whether, in addition to automatic Supreme Court review, a defendant sentenced to death is entitled to an…