State v. Hall

In this criminal case, defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for five counts of sexual abuse in the first degree and one count of unlawful sexual penetration in the second degree. At sentencing, based on its findings relating to the circumstances of the commission of the offenses, the trial court ordered that the sentences on certain convictions be served consecutively to the sentences on the other convictions. See ORS 137.123(2). On appeal, defendant contends, as he did below, that the trial court erred in imposing consecutive sentences on the basis of its own factual findings, as…