State v. Driver

The indictments in these consolidated cases charged each defendant with failure to register as a sex offender. Or Laws 1991, ch 389, § 4, codified in 1995 as ORS 181.599 (section 4).1 Defendants argued to the trial court that, because they committed their crimes before the relevant statutes became effective, those statutes do not apply to them. Alternatively, they argued that applying the statutes to them would violate the ex post facto clauses of the state and federal constitutions. The trial court accepted the ex post facto argument and granted the motions, thus preventing any further…