Court of Appeals of Oregon· 7/28/2010

State v. Watkins

Citations

236 P.3d 770
236 Or. App. 339
2010 Ore. App. LEXIS 875

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explaining that guilty verdicts, not con- victions or sentences, are what merge under Oregon merger law
the appellate court is bound by trial court’s findings in merger context “if there is constitutionally sufficient evidence in the record to support those findings”
insufficient evidence as to a significant pause in the defendant’s assault of a corrections officer
appellate court is “bound by the trial court’s findings of fact if there is constitutionally sufficient evidence in the record to support those findings” (internal quotation marks omitted)
“ [W]here a defendant has been found guilty on multiple counts of assault arising from the same criminal episode and involving the same victim, the court must merge those guilty verdicts unless the state proves that ‘one assault ended before the other began.’”

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Judges: Haselton, Armstrong, Edmonds

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