State v. Navickas

Defendant appeals a judgment convicting him of a single count of interfering with a peace officer, ORS 162.247. Defendant assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion for a judgment of acquittal (MJOA) based on the state’s failure to prove that he disobeyed a “lawful” order. He contends that the police officer’s order was unlawful because the officer acknowledged that he would not have issued the order if defendant’s group had obtained a permit under a city permit scheme, which the trial court later held was unconstitutional. Because we conclude that the police officer’s order…