Defendant petitions for reconsideration of our opinion in
State v. Ford,
Defendant raised two other assignments of error. We noted that “we need not address those claims, because we conclude that defendant’s first assignment of error [the claimed error on the motion to suppress] provides grounds for reversal.”
Ford,
With respect to that assignment, defendant contends that the only evidence adduced to support one of the counts of sexual assault was his admissions to the police. Consequently, he claims that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction under ORS 136.425. At the time of the crime, that statute provided that a confession is not “sufficient to warrant the conviction of the defendant without some other proof that the crime has been committed.” Defendant, however, did not move for a judgment of acquittal or challenge the sufficiency of the state’s evidence in any other way. The trial court had no duty to rule, sua sponte, on the sufficiency of the state’s evidence. Thus, there was no error.
Reconsideration allowed; former opinion modified and adhered to as modified.
