State v. Gostevskyh

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for fourth-degree assault and contempt, asserting two assignments of error: (1) that the trial court erred in admitting, as substantive evidence, the victim’s hearsay statements to the investigating deputy sheriff, and (2) that the court erred in entering a misdemeanor conviction for contempt, based on defendant’s violation of his pretrial release agreement, because contempt is not a crime. We reject defendant’s first assignment of error without discussion. With regard to the second, the state concedes that the trial court plainly erred in entering…