State v. Aitken

Defendant, who was convicted after a jury trial of one count of first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault, one count of coercion, and one count of interfering with making a report, argues that the trial court erred in failing to merge one of the second-degree assault guilty verdicts into the first-degree assault guilty verdict; and he also takes issue with the length of the guidelines sentences imposed. We affirm the convictions but remand for resentencing.

Because defendant was convicted, we state the evidence and all reasonable inferences in the light most favorable to the…