Court Opinion

ID: 9854178
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:02:26.865615+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:57.899459
License: Public Domain

GILLETTE, J.,
concurring
I join the opinion of the court. Although the dissent’s view also is plausible, I am persuaded by the majority and more particularly by the fact that the legislature reenacted, the DUII statutes sans any reference to a culpable mental state after the creation of ORS 161.105. That is a sufficiently clear legislative message for me.
I write separately, however, in order to emphasize a point made by the dissent that I believe to be correct and important: Like Justice Carson, I believe that State v. Cho, 297 Or 195, 681 P2d 1152 (1984), was wrongly decided. (309 Or at 381.) Issues of stare decisis aside, I doubt that a majority of this court now would decide the Cho issue the same way. We do not have to reconsider Cho today, however, because the majority’s opinion does not rely on its holding.
I concur.