State v. Cazares-Mendez/Reyes-Sanchez
Oregon Supreme Court
(Consolidated for argument and opinion)
1Opinion of the CourtBalmer, J.
Defendants José Guadalupe Cazares-Mendez and Jorge Reyes-Sanchez were convicted of aggravated murder in the death of Jessie Valero. During their separate trials, the court refused to allow them to present hearsay evidence from four different witnesses that another person, Tiffany Scherer, had stated that she had committed the murder. The Court of Appeals held that the trial court had erred in excluding the hearsay testimony. State v. Cazares-Mendez, 233 Or App 310, 227 P3d 172 (2010); State v. Reyes-Sanchez, 234 Or App 102, 227 P3d 1217 (2010). This court allowed the state’s petitions for…
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