State v. Carrillo

Defendant appeals his convictions for burglary in the first degree, ORS 164.225, attempted rape, ORS 161.405 and ORS 163.375, and two counts of assault in the fourth degree. ORS 163.160. He assigns as error the trial court’s admission of evidence that defendant had told the victim, his wife, that he had earlier killed a girlfriend. We affirm.

The charges arose from an incident involving defendant, his estranged wife and Yeater, wife’s boyfriend. Wife testified that she and defendant had been married for two years. In May, 1989, they were living in Phoenix, Arizona. She left him and returned to…