State v. Roberts

Defendant, who was convicted following a jury trial of multiple counts of first-degree kidnapping, ORS 163.235(1), and various sexual offenses against each of the two victims, appeals. He assigns error to (1) the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress various inculpatory statements that he made dining police interrogation and (2) the trial court’s failure to merge the convictions on the multiple counts of first-degree kidnapping (which were predicated on separate theories) in each case into a single conviction. For the reasons that follow, we reject defendant’s first assignment of…