State v. Burgert

*203Appealing a judgment of conviction for multiple sex offenses, defendant assigns error to (1) the trial court's failure to merge his guilty verdict for first-degree sexual abuse on Count 4 into his guilty verdict for first-degree sodomy on Count 5; and (2) the trial court's failure to merge his guilty verdict for first-degree sexual abuse on Count 11 into his guilty verdict for first-degree sodomy on Count 12. Defendant contends that "the version *170of first-degree sexual abuse at issue in this case does not contain any element that is not also included in the version of first-degree sodomy at…