State v. Fitouri

Defendant appeals his conviction for custodial interference in the first degree. ORS 163.257. He assigns error to the denial of his motion for judgment of acquittal. We affirm.

In 1992, defendant, his wife, Jeanette Dieringer, and their four-year-old son lived together in Beaverton. On June 27, 1992, while Dieringer was at a weekend retreat, defendant, without informing Dieringer of his intentions, took the couple’s son from Oregon to Frankfurt, Germany and, ultimately, to Tripoli, Libya, where his family resides. When Dieringer came home on June 28, she found defendant, the child, and most of…