State v. Vaughan-France

Defendant appeals a judgment convicting him of various crimes that arose out of defendant’s attack and confinement of his then-girlfriend at a Eugene-area motel. He raises nine assignments of error. We initially divide those assignments of error into two groups, those that assign error to the trial court’s decisions during trial and those that assign error to the court’s post-trial sentencing decisions.

In the first group, defendant raises three assignments of error. Defendant first contends that the trial court erred when it failed to dismiss a prospective juror for cause for actual bias. In…