State v. Peoples

Defendant was charged with assault in the fourth degree, ORS 163.160, and two counts of harassment, ORS 166.065. The court dismissed one count of harassment. The jury acquitted defendant on the assault charge and found him guilty of the remaining harassment charge. He appeals his harassment conviction, arguing that the trial court erred by prosecuting the charges against him as misdemeanors rather than violations. He also assigns error to the trial court’s admission of evidence of two of his prior criminal convictions. We affirm.

In his first assignment of error, defendant argues that the…