State v. Edwards-Peecher

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for criminal mischief in the second degree, ORS 164.354, and for recklessly endangering another person, ORS 163.195. The issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred when it excluded a statement made by defendant’s teenaged son to defendant’s investigator that he, rather than defendant, shot out a neighbor’s glass door with an air rifle. The trial court ruled that there was insufficient corroborating evidence under OEC 804(3)(c) to admit the son’s statement into evidence. On appeal, defendant assigns that ruling as error. To the extent that there…