State v. Holsclaw

Defendant, a designated predatory sex offender, used the public shower facilities in a YMCA building on multiple occasions. For that conduct, he was charged with seven counts of unlawfully being in a location where children regularly congregate, ORS 163.476 (2013), amended by Or Laws 2015, ch 820, § 17.1 Defendant was convicted after a bench trial. On appeal, he argues that the court should have entered a judgment of acquittal on each count because the evidence was insufficient to show that the location used by defendant—the YMCA shower facility— qualified as a “premises where persons under…