Court Opinion

ID: 9597904
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:03:54.918392+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:27:41.673435
License: Public Domain

NEWMAN, J.,
dissenting.
I agree with the majority, as does Judge Warden in his dissent, that defendant may appeal from the documents by which the trial court revoked his probation and either sentenced him to prison or required him to begin serving the sentence that it had previously imposed. The majority is also correct that ORS 138.050 limits the scope of our review on direct appeal so that, if the statute alone is considered, we may not consider the validity of the probation revocation. I agree, however, with Judge Warden’s dissent that, if the majority is right (as I believe it is) as a matter of statutory construction, ORS 138.040 grants a defendant who is convicted after a plea of not guilty a significant privilege that ORS 138.050 denies to *468a defendant who pleads guilty or no contest: the right to appellate review of the validity of a revocation of the defendant’s probation. For the reasons that Judge Graber stated in her dissent in State v. Crocker, 95 Or App 260, opinion withdrawn, 95 Or App 581 (1989), a dissent in which I joined, denial of that privilege to this defendant violates his rights under Article I, section 20, of the Oregon Constitution. To remedy the unconstitutionality, we should extend to him the same privilege that ORS 138.040 grants a defendant who is convicted after a plea of not guilty. Finally, I also concur in the last paragraph of Judge Warden’s dissent.