State v. Morgan

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction, following a bench trial, for second-degree robbery, ORS 164.405(l)(b), among other crimes.1 Defendant assigns error to her conviction for second-degree robbery, contending that the trial court misconstrued ORS 164.405(1)(b).2 Defendant asserts that the statute requires that “another person actually present” who aids a defendant must know that the defendant was committing theft and that her boyfriend — Thornton, the person who was with her at the time of the theft — did not know that she had committed theft, thus, he did not aid her within the…