Filed: August 3, 2000
STATE OF OREGON,
Respondent,
v.
MICHAEL JAMES McNEELY,
Appellant.
On automatic and direct review of the judgment of conviction and sentence of death imposed by the Multnomah County Circuit Court.
Ellen Rosenblum, Judge.
Argued and submitted March 8, 2000.
Eric Johansen, Deputy Public Defender, Salem, argued the cause for appellant. David E. Groom, State Public Defender, Anthony Bornstein, Deputy Public Defender, and Stephen J. Williams, Deputy Public Defender, filed the brief for appellant.
Robert B. Rocklin, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Hardy Myers, Attorney General, Michael D. Reynolds, Solicitor General, and Kathleen Cegla, Assistant Attorney General.
Before, Carson, Chief Justice, and Gillette, Van Hoomissen, Durham, Leeson, and Riggs, Justices.*
VAN HOOMISSEN, J.
The judgment of conviction and sentence of death are affirmed.
*Kulongoski, J., did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case.
VAN HOOMISSEN, J.
This criminal case is before the court on automatic and direct review of defendant's conviction for aggravated murder and sentence of death. Former ORS 163.150(1)(g) (1997), repealed by Or Laws 1999, ch 1055,