State v. Seamons

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for second-degree robbery, ORS 164.405, second-degree theft, ORS 164.046, and third-degree escape, ORS 162.165. He assigns error to the trial court’s refusal to permit him to present a choice of evils defense and to the court’s failure to exclude evidence of a prior conviction. We affirm.

The relevant facts are not in dispute. A police officer recruited defendant, a heroin addict, to sell heroin. Initially, the officer gave defendant 14 grams of heroin to sell. The officer demanded such a high price, however, that defendant could not sell all of the…