State v. Oatman

Todd Colin Oatman appeals from his conviction of five counts of robbery, in a jury trial in the Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County. We affirm.

The issue is whether the District Court erred in denying Oatman’s motion in limine to ban any mention at his trial of the guilty pleas made by Victor and Gene Camp to the same charges.

Just after midnight on August 22, 1993, Marla Wollgast, the shift supervisor at the Pizza Hut restaurant on Brooks Avenue in Missoula, Montana, noticed a car drive around the restaurant and then stop in the parking lot. Three men got out of the car and entered…