State v. Purdue

Defendants appeal their convictions for criminal trespass in the second degree. ORS 164.245(1). They assign as error the granting of the state’s pre-trial motion to withdraw from the jury’s consideration the defense of “constitutionally protected speech activity” and the court’s failure to grant their motions for directed judgments of acquittal and to give certain requested instructions. We affirm.

On March 17, 1990, defendants were arrested during a demonstration in the parking lot of an office building in Portland. Protestors were singing, praying and attempting to talk with patients of the…