State v. Gill

Defendant was charged by grand jury indictments with multiple counts of theft in the first degree by selling (ORS 164.055). At arraignment on the charges defendant’s attorney requested successive trial dates. The state neither objected to defendant’s request nor made any motion to consolidate the charges for a single trial. Defendant was convicted of theft in the first degree by selling after her first trial. Following her conviction in that trial, she moved to dismiss the remaining indictments on the ground that the state had failed to move to consolidate the cases and was therefore barred…