State v. Burton

Defendant appeals a judgment of the Multnomah County Circuit Court convicting him of second-degree robbery, ORS 164.405, and second-degree kidnapping, ORS 163.225. Defendant raises three assignments of error. We reject two of those assignments (including one made in defendant’s pro se supplemental brief) without discussion and write only to address defendant’s contention that the trial court erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal on the ground that the state failed to prove that the offenses took place in Multnomah County. We reverse and remand on the limited basis described…