State v. Moore

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

This is a sentencing appeal.

Defendant, while employed as a secretary in a law office in New Ulm, forged and cashed a large number of checks in the amount of $39,596.27 over a 4-year period. After the forgeries were discovered, defendant was charged with eight counts of aggravated forgery, Minn.Stat. .§ 609.625, subd. 1 (1982), based on separate acts of forgery occurring on eight different dates in February, March and April of 1982 (checks totaling $2,608.35).

At the omnibus hearing defendant’s trial attorney moved for an order consolidating the eight counts of aggravated…