State v. Conrad

Defendant appeals a judgment entered after a jury found him guilty of four counts of first-degree sexual abuse, ORS 163.427. On appeal, he challenges the trial court’s merger of the guilty verdicts on Counts 1 and 2 “for sentencing purposes,” the court’s admission of video recordings of the victims’ CARES interviews, and the court’s imposition of a mandatory minimum sentence under ORS 137.707(2) of 75 months’ imprisonment on Counts 1, 3, and 4. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that defendant’s merger challenge is moot, that we have a sufficient basis to affirm the court’s admission of…