State v. Barrett

This criminal case presents the issue whether a sentencing court may impose multiple life sentences on defendant for the aggravated murder of one victim. The trial court concluded that it had such authority under former ORS 161.062(1), repealed by Or Laws 1999, ch 136, § 1 (providing for separate punishments for separate statutory violations) 1 and imposed two consecutive life sentences, as well as a third life sentence to run concurrently with the other two. The Court of Appeals affirmed that judgment. State v. Barrett, 153 Or App 621, 958 P2d 215 (1998). We allowed review and now reverse…