State v. Johnson

This case is before us on automatic and direct review of defendant’s judgment of conviction and sentence of death. Defendant raises numerous assignments of error, none of which are well taken. We therefore affirm the judgments of conviction and the sentence of death.

The case began at 6:30 a.m. on February 24, 1998, when a young woman’s body was discovered in the surf on a beach near Warrenton. Within a few days, the Clatsop County Sheriffs Office positively identified the body as that of Heather Fraser, a Portland-area teenager. In the meantime, a forensic pathologist examined the body and…