State v. Haynes

Defendant is charged with murder and manslaughter. Defendant filed two pretrial motions to exclude evidence, the first seeking to exclude evidence of five allegations of prior bad acts, and the second seeking to exclude defendant’s interview with the police. The trial court granted in its entirety defendant’s motion to exclude defendant’s prior bad acts, and granted in part and denied in part defendant’s motion to exclude the police interview. The state seeks direct review of both rulings pursuant to ORS 138.060(2)(a). On review, the state seeks to reverse the trial court’s rulings to the…