State v. Cooper

The issue in this criminal case is whether a city police officer who investigates charges of a state crime and charges a defendant with that crime may be designated by the state in a state criminal trial based on this charge as a representative of the state under the second exception to the rule governing exclusion of witnesses that is stated in OEC 615. Stating that exception, OEC 615(2) in part provides:

“At the request of a party the court may order witnesses excluded until the time of final argument, and it may make the order of its own motion. This rule does not authorize exclusion of * *…