State v. King

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction, following a bench trial, for the crime of luring a minor, ORS 167.057,1 assigning error to the denial of his motion for judgment of acquittal. Defendant contends that the text message that he sent to the victim did not contain an “explicit verbal description * * * of sexual conduct,” as required by ORS 167.057. We reject defendant’s argument, because we conclude that a reasonable factfinder could find that defendant used an “explicit verbal description * * * of sexual conduct” for the purpose of inducing a minor to engage in sexual conduct with him…