State v. Thomas

Defendant was convicted of two counts of aggravated murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit aggravated murder, all of which involved the killing of a single individual. He appealed and assigned error to the trial court’s failure to merge all of the convictions into a single conviction of aggravated murder. Defendant had not raised the error below, so he requested review of the error as one that is apparent on the face of the record. See, e.g., State v. Wilkins, 175 Or App 569, 586, 29 P3d 1144 (2001); State v. Mendosa, 97 Or App 263, 264, 775 P2d 905 (1989). We affirmed the judgment…