State v. Adams

Defendant challenges the sentence imposed after he entered a plea of no contest and was convicted of manslaughter. ORS 163.118.

Defendant was charged with murder after killing the victim with a shotgun. He entered into a stipulation with the state whereby he agreed to plead no contest to the lesser charge of manslaughter in the first degree. The trial court was advised that defendant’s criminal history contained “four non-person type convictions,” which gave him a classification of G on the criminal history scale. OAR 253-04-006. On a conviction of murder, defendant’s grid block would have…