Court of Appeals of Oregon August 28, 1996, 94-4739-C-2; CA A88609 (Control); 95-1225-C-3; CA A88610 (State v. Driver)

WARREN, P. J.

The indictments in these consolidated cases charged each defendant with failure to register as a sex offender. Or Laws 1991, ch 389, § 4, codified in 1995 as ORS 181.599 (section 4).1 Defendants argued to the trial court that, because they committed their crimes before the relevant statutes became effective, those statutes do not apply to them.