State v. Hagberg

This is a criminal case in which defendant was charged with and convicted of eight sexual offenses committed against his girlfriend’s daughter. All of the offenses were subject to mandatory minimum sentences and, at sentencing, the trial court imposed the mandatory minimum sentence for each offense. However, the trial court also chose, over defendant’s timely constitutional objection, to make one of the sentences consecutive to another, and to make those two sentences concurrent with the other six. Defendant appealed to the Court of Appeals, arguing that, under Oregon law, the trial judge…