State v. Williams

*17Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for one count of first-degree sodomy, ORS 163.405. He raises three assignments of error, and we reject, without written discussion, all but his second assignment of error, in which he asserts that the trial court erred in denying his motion for a new trial. Specifically, defendant contends that the nonunanimous verdict provision in Article I, section 11, of the Oregon Constitution, as applied to his criminal case, is unconstitutional because it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.…