State v. Kayfes

Defendant, a former middle-school teacher, appeals his convictions for three counts of rape in the third degree, ORS 163.355, three counts of sodomy in the third degree, ORS 163.385, and three counts of sexual abuse in the third degree, ORS 163.415, arising out of a sexual relationship with one of his students, K. Although she admitted sexual conduct with defendant to the police and others, K refused to testify at trial, and defendant assigns error to the trial court’s admission of other evidence of the sexual nature of their relationship, specifically 12 audiotapes of telephone conversations…