State v. Ritter’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “"even if defendant 'appropriated' the telephone call by taking it over from his cellmate, it does not follow that defendant therefore appropriated the PIN that was required to initiate the call, much less converted that PIN to his own use within the meaning of ORS 165.800. Rather, defendant's cellmate gave defendant access to a benefit that the cellmate's use of his own personal identification provided him. Defendant did not appropriate that personal identification, just as a person who sits down in a friend's living room to watch a movie on an online video streaming service with the friend does not appropriate the personal identification that the friend used to log in to her account[.]"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 296 Or. App. 492 - State v. Connolly

2. “"[T]he parties' arguments focus on the narrow issue of whether, by taking over the telephone call that the cellmate made using his own PIN, defendant converted that PIN to his own use. The term 'converts to the person's own use' is not defined in ORS 165.800. However, the Supreme Court construed that phrase in Medina , 357 Or. at 271 [ 355 P.3d 108 ], concluding that, 'to convert another person's personal identification to his or her own use, a defendant must take, appropriate, or somehow divest the other person of their personal identification and, with the requisite intent, use that personal identification for the defendant's own purposes."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 296 Or. App. 492 - State v. Connolly

3. “"to 'appropriate' the personal identification of another person for the purpose of converting that personal identification to defendant's own use, and thereby committing identity theft, a defendant must take, acquire, or claim the personal identification of another person either by possessing or exercising some control over it ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 296 Or. App. 492 - State v. Connolly