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noting that "sexual abuse requires touching for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of either party," whereas "[t]he offense of sodomy * * * does not require proof of arousal or gratification of the sexual desire of either party"
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CR96639; A112157.
Submitted on record and briefs October 4, 2002.
Filed: November 27, 2002.
Appeal from Circuit Court, Yamhill County. John L. Collins, Judge.
David E. Groom, Acting Executive Director, Office of Public Defense Services, and Meredith Allen, Deputy Public Defender, filed the brief for appellant.
Hardy Myers, Attorney General, Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General, and Julie A. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, filed the brief for respondent.
Before HASELTON, Presiding Judge, and LINDER and WOLLHEIM, Judges.
PER CURIAM.
Convictions for two counts of first-degree sodomy affirmed; convictions for eight counts of first-degree sexual abuse reversed; remanded for resentencing.
Defendant appeals his convictions for two counts of first-degree sodomy, ORS 163.405, and eight counts of first-degree sexual abuse, ORS 163.427. He assigns error to the trial court instructing the jury that first-degree sexual abuse is a lesser-included offense of first-degree sodomy. The state concedes that the trial court erred in instructing the jury that first-degree sexual abuse is a lesser-included offense of first-degree sodomy. We accept the state's concession. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
At the time of the trial, State v. Dilts, 28 Or. App. 393, 396, 559 P.2d 1326 (1977), held that sexual abuse was a lesser-included offense of rape because "sexual contact is implicit in" rape. After the trial in this case, we decided State v. Spring, 172 Or. App. 508, 21 P.3d 657 (2001). There, we held that Dilts had been superseded by the enactment of ORS 161.067(1). Spring, 172 Or. App. at 513. We further held that sexual abuse did not have the same elements as rape. Id. at 514. The same analysis applies to whether sexual abuse is a lesser-included offense of sodomy. The offense of sexual abuse requires touching for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of either party. ORS 163.305(6). The offense of sodomy requires deviate sexual intercourse and does not require proof of arousal or gratification of the sexual desire of either party. ORS 163.305(1). As a result, the trial court erred in instructing the jury.
Convictions for two counts of first-degree sodomy affirmed; convictions for eight counts of first-degree sexual abuse reversed; remanded for resentencing.