State of Oregon, Respondent v. Matthew Dwight Thompson, Appellant

Summary

The court affirmed the convictions and death sentences after rejecting all preserved claims of guilt-phase and penalty-phase error. It held that the defendant was not entitled to substitute appointed counsel, that the homicide-related charges were properly joined, and that the evidence supported the burglary-based convictions and aggravated felony-murder conviction. The court also upheld the evidentiary rulings, supplemental jury instructions, verdicts, denial of a mistrial, and admission of the penalty-phase letter, while declining to reach several unpreserved constitutional claims.