State v. Newmann

In this criminal case, defendant challenges the trial court’s entry of separate convictions without merging the guilty verdicts for a number of offenses. We address only defendant’s fourth assignment of error, in which he argues that the trial court erred by entering three separate convictions— two for attempted aggravated murder and one for attempted murder—based on only two attempts to shoot a single victim. Exercising our discretion to review for plain error, we agree that the court entered too many separate convictions based on the two attempts to shoot a single victim, and we therefore…