State v. Groves

Defendant was charged with breaking into a woman’s apartment and sexually abusing and attempting to rape her and then, approximately 20 minutes later, breaking into another woman’s apartment with the intent to rape her. A jury found defendant guilty of first-degree burglary (Count 3), ORS 164.225, first-degree sexual abuse (Count 1), ORS 163.427, and first-degree attempted rape (Count 2), ORS 163.375, based on the first incident and first-degree burglary (Count 5) and first-degree attempted rape (Count 4) based on the second incident. Defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence on…