State v. Houtenbrink

The defendant was convicted after a jury trial in the Superior Court (Wyman, J.) under indictments of both first degree assault, RSA 631:1, and felonious use of a firearm, RSA 650-A:l, and was sentenced to five to fifteen years at the State prison for the assault and to one year for the felonious use of the firearm, to run consecutively. On appeal, the defendant argues: (1) that the imposition of consecutive sentences for first degree assault and the felonious use of a firearm violates part I, article 16 of the New Hampshire Constitution, which guarantees protection against double jeopardy;…