State v. Barone

This capital case is before this court on automatic and direct review, pursuant to ORS 163.150(l)(g). Defendant seeks reversal of a judgment of conviction on four counts of aggravated murder involving a single victim. He also challenges the death sentence that was imposed on the basis of those convictions. We affirm the judgment of conviction and the sentence of death.

I. FACTS

Shortly after 3:00 a.m. on October 9,1992, the Washington County 9-1-1 Center dispatched a Hillsboro Police Officer to Cornell Road, on the outskirts of Hillsboro, to investigate a telephone call about shots being fired.…