State v. Miller

After a jury trial in 2006, defendant was convicted of nine sex offenses committed in 1995, when defendant was 17 years old and the victim was seven or eight years old. After the jury rendered its verdict, the trial court dismissed the jury and sentenced defendant to concurrent and consecutive sentences totaling 175 months in prison based on its own findings. Defendant appeals, raising two assignments of error: (1) that there was insufficient evidence for a jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant’s crimes were committed on or after the effective date for Measure 11 sentencing…