State v. Crummett

Defendant was convicted of 12 sexual offenses following a stipulated facts trial to the court. Defendant was charged with 42 offenses. The charges were joined in a single indictment. The indictment alleged that those offenses involved six different victims, all girls under the age of 14, across a five-year span of time. The issue on appeal is whether ORS 132.560(3) required the trial court to sever the charges against defendant and, if not, whether due process required the trial court to sever the charges. Defendant moved to sever the charges into six different cases — one for each of the…