State v. Wood

This is a consolidated appeal by defendants Wood and Green’s Seafoods, Inc. (Green’s), following convictions for the felony crime of buying and possessing food fish (salmon) unlawfully caught during a closed season. ORS 509.011(2)(a); ORS 506.991(3). Defendants assign error to the denial of motions to dismiss the indictments1 and to the admission at trial of rebuttal evidence that Wood had bought illegal sturgeon roe on other occasions. We affirm.

Wood is the president and manager of Green’s, a wholesale fish dealer in Portland. Defendants became the target of a state police undercover…