State v. Bafus

Defendant challenges her convictions for nine counts of first-degree aggravated theft by deception, ORS 164.057 and ORS 164.085, and two counts of first-degree theft by deception, ORS 164.055 and ORS 164.085. She raises 13 assignments of error, but we only address her first assignment of error in which she contends that the trial court committed a reversible “error of law apparent on the record,” ORAP 5.45(1), when it held a bench trial and convicted her without first obtaining a written waiver of her right to a jury trial. The state concedes that the trial court, in violation of Article I,…