State v. Goltz

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction on two counts of attempted aggravated murder, ORS 163.095 and ORS 161.405, and one count of felon in possession of a firearm, ORS 166.270. He assigns error to the denial of a motion for a judgment of acquittal on the felon in possession charge, to the trial court’s refusal to merge the two counts of attempted aggravated murder, and to its imposition of consecutive sentences on those counts. We affirm.

We state the facts in the light most favorable to the state, which prevailed at trial. Ball v. Gladden, 250 Or 485, 487, 443 P2d 621 (1968). One night,…