State v. Davies

Defendant appeals from her convictions, following a jury trial, on two counts of unauthorized possession of a firearm. ORS 166.250. She assigns error to, inter alia, the trial court’s exclusion of certain testimony as inadmissible hearsay.1 We conclude that the excluded testimony was not inadmissible hearsay and that its exclusion was not harmless error. Accordingly, we reverse and remand for a new trial.

On May 20, 1998, Milwaukie Police Officer Wells stopped a pickup truck for a traffic infraction. Defendant was the driver, and her former boyfriend, Bachulis, was the only passenger. After…