State v. Louis

Defendant was convicted of three counts of public indecency. The Court of Appeals affirmed and the defendant petitioned this court to review two issues. The first is whether the telephoto photographing of defendant in his living room by the police was a warrantless search. The second issue deals with whether the prosecution may introduce evidence of similar prior acts to prove knowledge under OEC 404(3).

Responding to a citizen’s complaint in May of 1982 that the defendant had been exposing himself in his living room window on a regular basis, the police contacted a neighbor across the street…