State v. Haugen

*176BALMER, J.

This case is before the court on automatic and direct review of defendant’s conviction and sentence of death for aggravated murder. See ORS 138.012 (providing for direct review in Supreme Court when jury imposes death sentence). Defendant has been an inmate in the Oregon State Penitentiary since 1981, when he was convicted of killing his girlfriend’s mother. In 2004, the state indicted defendant and another inmate, Jason Brumwell, for the killing of a third inmate. A jury convicted defendant of one count of aggravated murder for committing murder after previously having been…