The Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a conviction for first-degree theft, concluding the trial court had erred in not determining the defendant’s mental state with regard to the value of the stolen property.

Judge Douglas L. Tookey for the Oregon Court of Appeals determined a trial court had erred in failing to access a Christian Alan Acosta’s mental health state with regard to the value of the stolen property, as well as in declining the defendant’s request to instruct the jury that it was required to find he was “negligently unaware that the value of the stolen property was $1,000 or more.”