Case ID: or-app_70/html/0177-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      PER CURIAM", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Submitted on record and briefs September 14,
    reversed and remanded October 3, 1984
    EVERETT D. SCHULTZ, Appellant, v. STATE OF OREGON, Respondent.
    
    (83-1341-C; CA A31162)
    688 P2d 438
    Roy E. Elicker, II, Portland, submitted the brief for appellant.
    Dave Frohnmayer, Attorney General, James E. Mountain, Jr., Solicitor General, and Thomas H. Denney, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, submitted the brief for respondent.
    Before Gillette, Presiding Judge, and Van Hoomissen and Young, Judges.
    PER CURIAM
   PER CURIAM

Petitioner-appellant filed a petition for post-conviction relief in which he asked the circuit court to set aside his 1979 conviction for driving while under the influence of intoxicants (DUII) on constitutional grounds. Without ruling on the merits of petitioner’s claim, the trial court dismissed the petition on the ground that the Post-Conviction Hearing Act, ORS 138.510 to 138.680, does not apply to DUII convictions that were only punishable as Class A traffic infractions under former law. As the state confesses, that was error. Evers v. State of Oregon, 69 Or App 450, 685 P2d 1024 (1984).

Reversed and remanded for further proceedings.