State v. Cox

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for failure to report as a sex offender. ORS 181.599. His sole assignment of error is that the trial court should have granted his motion for a judgment of acquittal on the ground that the state did not prove that he failed to report a “change of residence” within the 10-day period required by law. We affirm.

The relevant facts are not in dispute. Defendant is a convicted sex offender, required to report to the appropriate law enforcement agency “[w]ithin 10 days of a change of residence.” ORS 181.596(4)(b)(A). He lived in an apartment in Coos Bay,…