From Casetext: Smarter Legal Research

State v. Wold

Oregon Court of Appeals
Jan 9, 1991
803 P.2d 782 (Or. Ct. App. 1991)

Summary

In Wold, we explained that a trial court can only impose additional conditions of probation that are not excluded by ORS 137.540.

Summary of this case from State v. Oary

Opinion

CR0-0156-BH; CA A64509

Argued and submitted December 7, 1990.

Conviction affirmed; remanded for resentencing January 9, 1991

Appeal from District Court, Deschutes County, Barbara Haslinger, Judge.

Thomas J. Crabtree, Bend, argued the cause for appellant. With him on the brief was Crabtree Rahmsdorff, Defense Services, Inc., Bend.

Richard Wasserman, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Dave Frohnmayer, Attorney General, and Virginia L. Linder, Solicitor General, Salem.

Before Buttler, Presiding Judge, and Rossman and De Muniz, Judges.

ROSSMAN, J.

Conviction affirmed; remanded for resentencing.


Defendant entered a plea of guilty of assault in the fourth degree, a misdemeanor. ORS 163.160 (1)(a). He was charged by information with having committed the assault on January 7, 1990. He seeks modification of the two-day jail sentence that he received as a condition of probation. We remand for resentencing.

Defendant argues that the trial court exceeded its statutory authority in imposing the condition of probation because, after the 1989 amendments to ORS 137.540 (2), the only offenses committed on or after November 1, 1989, for which jail may be imposed are felonies. Or Laws 1989, ch 790, § 16. ORS 137.540 (2) now provides:

"In addition to the general conditions, the court may impose special conditions of probation * * * including, but not limited to, that the probationer shall: * * *

"(a) For crimes committed prior to November 1, 1989, be confined to the county jail * * *.

"(b) For felonies committed on or after November 1, 1989, be confined in the county jail * * *." (Emphasis supplied.)

The state argues that, although the statute expressly provides for jail time for felonies committed on or after November 1, 1989, it does not exclude jail time for misdemeanors. It contends that special probation conditions are not limited to those expressed in the statute and, therefore, a trial court may still impose jail time for misdemeanors as a special probation condition.

The 1989 Legislature amended ORS 137.540 (2) to exclude misdemeanors as a category of crimes for which jail time can be imposed as a condition of probation. Although the statute allows special conditions "including, but not limited to" those enumerated, that language only allows a court to impose conditions that are not already addressed in the statute. See State v. Schwab, 95 Or. App. 593, 597, 771 P.2d 277 (1989). A condition is addressed if the statute either expressly includes or excludes it. If the legislature wanted all categories of crimes to remain subject to a possible jail time condition of probation, it would have expressly so provided or would not have amended the statute at all. We are not at liberty to rewrite a statute to fill perceived legislative omissions. ORS 174.010; Portland Adventist Medical Center v. Sheffield, 303 Or. 197, 200, 735 P.2d 371 (1987). Accordingly, the condition of probation relating to jail confinement must be vacated.

Conviction affirmed; remanded for resentencing.


Summaries of

State v. Wold

Oregon Court of Appeals
Jan 9, 1991
803 P.2d 782 (Or. Ct. App. 1991)

In Wold, we explained that a trial court can only impose additional conditions of probation that are not excluded by ORS 137.540.

Summary of this case from State v. Oary
Case details for

State v. Wold

Case Details

Full title:STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. JEFFREY WOLD, Appellant

Court:Oregon Court of Appeals

Date published: Jan 9, 1991

Citations

803 P.2d 782 (Or. Ct. App. 1991)
803 P.2d 782

Citing Cases

State v. Wilken

The state concedes that this case must be remanded for resentencing on the misdemeanor convictions. State v.…

State v. Van Gorder

The state concedes that defendant is correct, and we agree. State v. Wold, 105 Or. App. 158, 803 P.2d 782…