State v. McCullough

This case involves the construction of the statute that defines the crime of hindering prosecution. That statute, ORS 162.325(1), which we set out in full below, makes it illegal to engage in certain acts intended “to hinder the apprehension, prosecution, conviction or punishment of a person who has committed a crime punishable as a felony.” The question is whether ORS 162.325(1) can be applied to a father (defendant) who provided money and an airline ticket to his son (youth) so that youth could flee to the Philippines. Youth had been on probation after he had been found within the…