State v. Goodenow

This is a criminal case in which defendant appeals the trial court’s judgment convicting and sentencing her for three crimes — aggravated theft in the first degree, ORS 164.057; forgery in the first degree, ORS 165.013; and cheating, ORS 167.167 — and ordering her to forfeit $960,843.77 in lottery winnings that she obtained by purchasing a lottery ticket with a credit card that she was not authorized to use. On appeal, defendant argues that the forfeiture violates the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.1 For the reasons below, we conclude that the…