State v. Underhill

Defendant was convicted, following a bench trial, of two counts of sexual abuse in the first degree, ORS 163.427.1 On appeal, she raises two assignments of error. We reject without published discussion defendant’s second assignment of error, pertaining to a motion for judgment of acquittal for one of the charges, and write to address her first assignment of error. In that assignment, defendant contends that the trial court erred in denying her motion to suppress statements that she made in the course of, and following, a polygraph exam. Specifically, she argues that, under the totality of the…