DUNCAN, J.
Defendant was charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants (DUII) in violation of Eugene City Code (ECC) 5.005.
The relevant facts are undisputed. Defendant is a veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In 2008, defendant was under the care of a doctor at the Veterans' Administration Hospital in Eugene. The doctor prescribed defendant a drug, Ambien, to help him sleep.
On March 6, 2008, defendant took the Ambien as prescribed and went to bed. The next morning, defendant woke up to discover his car was gone and he had a DUII citation in his pocket. Defendant had not consumed any alcohol before going to bed, and he has no memory of what happened between the time he went to bed and the time he woke up.
Defendant contacted his doctor, distraught over what had happened. The doctor told defendant that he needed to continue to take the Ambien to control his PTSD symptoms. Defendant followed the doctor's orders.
On March 15, 2008, defendant took the Ambien as prescribed and went to bed. The next morning, he woke up to discover, for the second time, his car was gone and he had a DUII citation in his pocket. As with the first DUII incident, defendant had not consumed any alcohol before going to bed, and he has no memory of what happened between the time he went to bed and the time he woke up.
Defendant was convicted in municipal court, and he appealed to the circuit court for a trial de novo pursuant to ORS 221.359.
The city filed a motion in limine requesting an order "prohibiting the defendant from introducing evidence, or arguing to the jury, that his act of driving under the influence of intoxicants was not a knowing or voluntary act." The city relied on State v. Miller, 309 Or. 362, 364, 788 P.2d 974 (1990), a case in which a DUII defendant sought to introduce evidence that he did not know that the coffee drink he consumed before being arrested for DUII contained alcohol, and the Supreme Court held that "being under the influence of an intoxicant is a strict liability element[.]" The city argued that, under Miller, it did not need to prove that defendant's acts of drinking alcohol and driving were voluntary.
Defendant disputed the city's interpretation of Miller, arguing that Miller involved the requirement of a culpable mental state, not the requirement of a voluntary act. Defendant explained that ORS 161.095 establishes two prerequisites to criminal liability, a voluntary act and a culpable mental state, and that his argument was based on the voluntary act requirement established by ORS 161.095(1), whereas the defendant's argument in Miller was based on the culpable mental state requirement established by ORS 161.095(2). ORS 161.095 provides:
Defendant pointed out that, in Miller, the Supreme Court identified the issue in the case as "whether a defendant may be convicted of violating ORS 813.010 [the DUII statute] without proof of a culpable mental state as to the element of being under the influence of an intoxicant." Miller, 309 Or. at 364, 788 P.2d 974. Defendant contended that, as the facts of Miller suggest, the issue was whether the defendant knew, or should have known, that he had consumed alcohol, not whether he did so voluntarily.
The circuit court understood defendant's argument and agreed that ORS 161.095(1) and (2) establish independent prerequisites to criminal liability, but held that Miller controlled
After the circuit court granted the city's motion, defendant tried his case to the court on stipulated evidence, and the court found defendant guilty. The court stated that it believed that defendant was "essentially unconscious when this happened," but that it was required to find defendant guilty under Miller. The court sentenced defendant to 24 months' probation, subject to general and special conditions, including completion of two days in jail and payment of fines and fees.
As noted, on appeal, defendant assigns error to the trial court's exclusion of evidence relating to whether his acts of drinking alcohol and driving were voluntary, and the city argues that we do not have jurisdiction to reach defendant's argument because defendant is not challenging the constitutionality of the DUII ordinance he was convicted of violating.
Our jurisdiction is not plenary; it is created and limited by statute. City of Lowell v. Wilson, 197 Or.App. 291, 296, 105 P.3d 856, rev. den., 339 Or. 406, 122 P.3d 64 (2005). Our jurisdiction over circuit court judgments of conviction for violating municipal ordinances is governed by ORS 221.360, which provides:
Under ORS 221.360, when a defendant has been convicted in municipal court, and then convicted in circuit court following a trial de novo, we have jurisdiction to review the circuit court judgment only if the defendant is challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance he was convicted of violating. Wilson, 197 Or.App. at 299-301, 105 P.3d 856; see also City of Salem v. Bruner, 299 Or. 262, 265, 702 P.2d 70 (1985); City of Klamath Falls v. Winters, 289 Or. 757, 763, 619 P.2d 217 (1980), appeal dismissed, 451 U.S. 964, 101 S.Ct. 2037, 68 L.Ed.2d 343 (1981); City of Salem v. Polanski, 202 Or. 504, 509-10, 276 P.2d 407 (1954).
The requirement of a constitutional challenge to the ordinance the defendant was convicted of violating was first identified in
Since then, the Supreme Court has reiterated its construction of the statute adopted in Polanski and sustained ORS 221.360, so construed, against constitutional challenge. See, e.g., Bruner, 299 Or. at 266, 702 P.2d 70 ("The effect of [ORS 221.350 and ORS 221.360] as interpreted is to preclude the right to plenary appeal in cases such as the present."); Winters, 289 Or. at 764-77, 619 P.2d 217 (sustaining ORS 221.360, as construed in Polanski, against the assertion that differentiation in appellate process afforded persons convicted in municipal courts of municipal code violations violated federal Equal Protection Clause and Article I, section 20, of the Oregon Constitution). Accordingly, "Polanski's construction of ORS 221.360 remains `a part of the statute as if written into it at the time of its enactment.'" Wilson, 197 Or. App. at 299, 105 P.3d 856 (quoting Stephens v. Bohlman, 314 Or. 344, 350 n. 6, 838 P.2d 600 (1992)).
Thus, the question in this case is whether defendant challenged the constitutionality of the DUII ordinance. For the following reasons, we conclude he did not.
Defendant's argument before the circuit court that the city was required to prove a voluntary act as a predicate to criminal liability was purely statutory. He relied solely on ORS 161.095(1). He told the court he had "a jury instruction that would quote the statute and say, [']The minimal requirement for criminal liability is the performance by a person of conduct which includes a voluntary act.[']" He directed the circuit court to ORS 161.095(1), and, when the court read the statute aloud, defendant confirmed it was the statute he was relying on. When the circuit court read ORS 161.085(2), which defines "voluntary act," defendant replied that his argument was that, under ORS 161.095(1), the city had to prove a voluntary act, as defined by ORS 161.085(2)—that is, the city had to prove that defendant acted consciously:
When the circuit court referenced ORS 161.095(2)'s requirement of a culpable mental state, defendant reiterated that he was relying on the independent requirement of a voluntary act under ORS 161.095(1):
Defendant did not cite, or even allude to, any constitutional basis for his claim that the city had to prove a voluntary act as a prerequisite to criminal liability. He did not, for example, argue that imposing criminal liability for an unconscious or involuntary act violates the federal Due Process Clause.
The circuit court understood defendant's argument as a statutory argument. As set out above, it ultimately held that, under Miller—which involved statutory prerequisites
As in the circuit court, defendant's argument regarding the requirement of a voluntary act on appeal is statutory. In his brief, defendant argues:
He specifically relies on ORS 161.095(1)'s requirement of a voluntary act, stating that "[t]he court in Miller was not presented with facts that necessitated a discussion of, and did not discuss, the issue of a voluntary act as required by ORS 161.095." Critically, defendant did not argue before the circuit court, and does not argue now, that, if the DUII ordinance does not require a conscious or voluntary act, it is unconstitutional.
Defendant's only constitutional claim, in the circuit court and on appeal, is that a defendant has a constitutional right to a jury trial under Article I, section 11, of the Oregon Constitution and the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. That claim is, of course, correct. A defendant has a constitutional right to a jury trial, and that right includes the right to have a jury find all the elements of the charged offense beyond a reasonable doubt. See, e.g., Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296, 313, 124 S.Ct. 2531, 159 L.Ed.2d 403 (2004) (under the Sixth Amendment, "every defendant has the right to insist that the prosecutor prove to a jury all facts legally essential to the punishment" (emphasis in original)). But defendant's constitutional claim is not the type of claim required for us to have jurisdiction under ORS 221.360. It is not a claim that the DUII ordinance is unconstitutional.
Defendant's constitutional claim is dependent on his statutory argument; he argues that, as a matter of statutory law, a voluntary act was an element of DUII and then argues that, as a matter of constitutional law, he has a right to have the prosecution prove that element, like all other elements, to a jury. Defendant has not made an independent constitutional challenge to the DUII ordinance. Therefore, we do not have jurisdiction over this appeal and, accordingly, we dismiss.
Appeal dismissed.
ORS chapter 813 contains Oregon's DUII statute, ORS 813.010; therefore, the text of the city DUII ordinance and the state DUII statute are the same.