State v. Lewis

Defendant appeals his conviction and sentence for attempted assault in the first-degree with a firearm, ORS 163.185. In 1989, shortly after the jury’s verdict, but before sentencing, the state sent defendant to Washington for sentencing for separate crimes he had committed. Washington sentenced defendant and did not return him to Oregon until he had completed serving that sentence in 2008. Thus, almost two decades after his attempted assault conviction, defendant was sentenced in Oregon on December 1, 2008. By that time, the transcript of defendant’s trial had been destroyed or lost. On…