Youngblood v. Sullivan

Defendant was convicted of rape in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree. Through inadvertence the state public defender’s office, which had agreed to file a notice of appeal in defendant’s case, failed to do so in a timely manner. Defendant therefore brought this post-conviction proceeding pursuant to ORS 138.510. Defendant raised the arguments he would have asserted on appeal, i.e., that the admission of "other crimes” testimony by a female witness other than the victim was so prejudicial as to deny him a fair trial. At his original trial the court found that the probative value…