Case Name: STATE OF OREGON, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. MARCUS JOSEPH HORN, Defendant-Appellant
Court: Oregon Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 2017-03-01
Citations: 284 Or. App. 192
Docket Number: 1500088CR; A159184
Parties: STATE OF OREGON, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. MARCUS JOSEPH HORN, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before Sercombe, Presiding Judge, and Flynn, Judge, and DeHoog, Judge.
Reporter: Oregon Reports, Court of Appeals
Volume: 284
Pages: 192–193

Head Matter:
Submitted January 31;
conviction on Count 1 reversed, remanded for resentencing, otherwise affirmed March 1, 2017
STATE OF OREGON, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. MARCUS JOSEPH HORN, Defendant-Appellant.
Klamath County Circuit Court
1500088CR; A159184
389 P3d 1196
Ernest G. Lannet, Chief Defender, Criminal Appellate Section, and Vanessa McDonald, Deputy Public Defender, Office of Public Defense Services, filed the brief for appellant.
Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, Benjamin Gutman, Solicitor General, and Leigh A. Salmon, Assistant Attorney General, filed the brief for respondent.
Before Sercombe, Presiding Judge, and Flynn, Judge, and DeHoog, Judge.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM
Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for two counts of witness tampering (Counts 1 and 2), ORS 162.285. On appeal, defendant raises two assignments of error. We reject without discussion defendant's second assignment of error, in which he contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal on Count 2. However, we reach a different conclusion as to defendant's first assignment of error. In his first assignment, defendant contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal on Count 1. Defendant asserts that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction on that count. The state concedes that, as to Count 1, the evidence was legally insufficient and the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion for judgment of acquittal. The state's concession is well founded, and we accept it.
Conviction on Count 1 reversed; remanded for resentencing; otherwise affirmed.
Under ORS 162.285(l)(a), a person commits the crime of tampering with a witness if
"[t]he person knowingly induces or attempts to induce a witness or a person the person believes may be called as a witness in any official proceeding to offer false testimony or unlawfully withhold any testimony!.] "