State v. Nichols

Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting her of murder, ORS 163.115; first-degree theft, ORS 164.055; and unlawful possession of a controlled substance, former ORS 475.840(3) (2009), renumbered as ORS 475.752 (2011). We reject three of her four assignments of error without further discussion and write only to address her third assignment of error, which challenges the exclusion of testimony from her expert witness. Because the proposed testimony would not have been helpful to the jury, the trial court’s decision to exclude it was not error. Accordingly, we affirm.

We begin with a brief…