State v. Morales

Defendant was convicted and separately sentenced for criminal activity in drugs by transporting heroin and criminal activity in drugs by possessing heroin. The two charges involved the same drugs at the same time and place. State v. Miller, 14 Or App 396, 513 P2d 508 (1973), prohibits separate judgments of conviction and sentences on these facts.

The substantive standards governing whether separate judgments of conviction can be entered and sentences imposed for violating related statutes or repeated violations of the same statute have been often discussed by the Supreme Court and this, court.…