State v. Lissy

Defendant appeals his conviction for aggravated murder, assigning error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress certain recorded conversations between him and others and the recorded statements of a co-conspirator (Wilson), and to the admission of the same statements of Wilson as admissions against penal interest. We affirm.

Defendant’s wife, Kathryn Martini-Lissy, was found dead in a room at the Valley River Inn in Eugene on June 6, 1984. She had been strangled during the previous evening. Her body had several small abrasions, and there was evidence that she had engaged in, or…