State v. King

Since becoming effective January 1,1974, Oregon’s criminal discovery statutes, ORS 135.805-135.873, have been interpreted in numerous appellate decisions. This case offers the opportunity to collect and synthesize those prior decisions.

In the course of defendant’s trial for burglary, it developed that the state had failed to disclose to the defense the names of two witnesses — one of the residents of the burglarized premises and the crime laboratory technician who compared defendant’s fingerprints with those found in the burglarized premises. The trial court expressed its displeasure 2 but…