State v. Cazarez-Lopez

*351The state appeals in this criminal case, raising challenges to the trial court's imposition of sentence following defendant's guilty plea to one count of attempted murder (Count 1), four counts of first-degree assault (Counts 2, 3, 4, and 5), one count of felony fourth-degree assault constituting domestic violence (Count 6), and one count of unlawful use of a weapon (Count 7). In its first assignment of error, the state contends that the "trial court erred by merging defendant's guilty plea to felony fourth-degree assault constituting domestic violence on Count 6 into defendant's first-degree…