State v. Norton

Defendant was convicted of 21 crimes and was sentenced on 16 different convictions after the trial court merged five conspiracy convictions into the underlying offenses. On appeal, defendant assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion for a continuance, to the court’s denial of his motion for judgment of acquittal on three of the counts, and to the imposition of two 18-month consecutive sentences.

On September 22,1996, defendant was interviewed by Trooper Purdy regarding a number of crimes that had occurred in Union County during the previous year. In the tape-recorded interview,…