State v. Haley

Summary

The Oregon Supreme Court held that a university administrator’s office within a university building is a “separate unit” and therefore a “separate building” for purposes of the second‑degree burglary statute. The Court reversed the Court of Appeals and affirmed the trial court’s denial of the defendant’s motion for judgment of acquittal, upholding the burglary conviction. The decision rests on a textual, contextual, and legislative‑history analysis of ORS 164.205(1).