State v. Thomas

Defendant was convicted of two counts of aggravated murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit aggravated murder, all of which involved the murder of a single victim. He appealed, assigning error to the trial court’s failure to merge all of the convictions into a single conviction for aggravated murder. Defendant conceded that he had failed to preserve his assignment of error before the trial court, but urged that we review it as plain error. We agreed, vacated defendant’s convictions, and remanded the case to the trial court with instructions to enter a single conviction for aggravated…