State v. Stout

Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him of violating the Oregon Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (ORICO). ORS 166.715 - 166.735. Defendant assigns error to the denials of his demurrer to the indictment and his motion in arrest of judgment. Both assignments of error raise the same issue: whether ORS 166.720(6), which sets out specific pleading requirements for “an allegation of a pattern of racketeering activity,” applies to the indictment in defendant’s case, which accused him of an inchoate ORICO crime under ORS 166.720(4) of conspiring or endeavoring to commit an…