State v. White

Defendant was convicted of five counts of identity theft, ORS 165.800, among other things, and assigns error on appeal to the trial court’s failure to merge the five counts into a single identity-theft conviction.1 The state charged defendant by indictment with, among other things, five counts of identity theft. The indictment identified the same victim as the victim in four of the five identity-theft counts. The remaining count did not identify a victim. The indictment further alleged that each of the five counts occurred within an overlapping range of dates. Defendant signed a written plea…