State v. Warren

We must decide whether charging a defendant with multiple counts of perjury based on testimony given to a circuit judge in the same proceeding violates the rule against multiplicity. The State appeals an order granting Roger Warren's postconviction motion to vacate his perjury conviction on count two of a three-count information. The State argues that the trial court erred when it vacated Warren's peijury conviction and sentence on count two based on multiplicity and double jeopardy concerns because: (1) while counts two and three of the information are identical in law, they are different in…