State v. Tidwell

507 P.3d 356, 318 Or. App. 659

• Court: Court of Appeals of Oregon
• Decided: March 30, 2022
• Docket: A173011
• Status: Published

Opinion

Argued and submitted March 4, reversed and remanded March 30, 2022

STATE OF OREGON, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. ROGER ALLEN TIDWELL, Defendant-Appellant. Deschutes County Circuit Court 17CR09203; A173011 507 P3d 356

Raymond D. Crutchley, Judge. Andrew D. Coit argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellant. Kirsten M. Naito, Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent. Also on the brief were Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, and Benjamin Gutman, Solicitor General. Before James, Presiding Judge, and Aoyagi, Judge, and Joyce, Judge. PER CURIAM Reversed and remanded. 660 State v. Tidwell

PER CURIAM Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction of one count of sexual abuse in the third degree, one count of sexual abuse in the first degree, and one count of unlaw- ful sexual penetration in the first degree, raising multi- ple assignments of error. Defendant’s second assignment of error obviates the need to address any of the others. In that assignment, he argues that police officers unlawfully entered his room, where he was lying in bed, and threw back the sheets covering him. The state concedes that the war- rantless entry into the room was unlawful, and we accept the concession. The trial court erred in failing to suppress evidence found by the officers as a result of their unlawful entry of the room, including observations of defendant in the room, as well as statements he made in the room. The parties on appeal agree that the proper remedy is a remand for a new trial, at which time the other issues raised on appeal, including the admissibility of defendant’s subsequent statements at the police station, can be litigated. We do not reach those issues here, and our resolution has no preclusive effect on the further development of those issues on retrial. Reversed and remanded.