State v. Baker

Defendant was convicted by a jury of rape in the first degree, ORS 163.375, and kidnapping in the second degree, ORS 163.225. He was sentenced to the Corrections Division for a period not to exceed 20 years for rape and for a period of five years for the kidnapping to be served concurrently. Defendant assigns as error: (1) the admission into evidence of a hearsay statement relating the victim’s complaint of the alleged rape; and (2) the sentence imposed.

After visiting a girlfriend, the 17-year-old victim was walking home along a road late at night. The defendant, an acquaintance of the…