State v. Marshall

*161ORTEGA, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction for two counts of first-degree sexual abuse, ORS 163.427, and one count of coercion, ORS 163.275. He assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion for a judgment of acquittal on the sexual abuse counts, contending that the state failed to prove the “forcible compulsion” element of those counts.1 We review the denial of a motion for a judgment of acquittal to determine whether, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the state, a rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime proved…