State v. Piatt

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for one count of failure to register as a sex offender, former ORS 181.599 (2009), renumbered as ORS 181.812 (2013). He assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion for judgment of acquittal, arguing that the state failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he had committed the offense in Coos County, the county in which the state prosecuted the offense. After defendant filed his brief in this case, the Supreme Court decided State v. Mills, 354 Or 350, 312 P3d 515 (2013), in which it held that Article I, section 11, of the Oregon…