State v. Ritchie

*575GILLETTE, J. pro tempore

This case is a companion to State v. Barger, 349 Or 553, 247 P3d 309 (2011). Like the defendant in Barger, defendant was convicted of multiple (in defendant’s case, 20) counts of Encouraging Child Abuse in the Second Degree, ORS 163.686, based on the presence of sexually explicit digital images of children on the hard drives of his computers. Defendant appealed, arguing, among other things, that the state had failed to prove that he “possesse[d] or control[led]” any of the images within the meaning of the Encouraging Child Abuse statute,1 and that it also had failed to…