State v. Green

Defendant was convicted of murder for the shooting of two girls in Coos County, in violation of ORS 163.115. In addition to a plea of not guilty, defendant contended that he was suffering from “extreme mental or emotional disturbance” at the time of the shootings, so as to reduce any crime from murder to manslaughter by reason of ORS 163.125. ①

The primary error assigned by defendant on appeal to the Court of Appeals was that the trial court erred in overruling defendant’s objections to the offering by the state of “polygraph evidence,” including not only the fact that defendant had taken a…