State v. Maugaotega

Opinion of the Court by

LEVINSON, J.

The defendant-appellant Miti Maugaotega, Jr. appeals from the judgments of the circuit court of the first circuit, the Honorable Patrick Border presiding, filed on May 17, 2004 and May 18, 2004, convicting him of and sentencing him for twenty-two offenses in five criminal cases, see infra Section I.

On appeal, Maugaotega contends that the circuit court plainly erred in sentencing him to extended terms of imprisonment as a “multiple offender,” pursuant to HRS § 706-662(4)(a) (1993 & Supp.2003),1 inasmuch as *402the jury did not decide that such extended terms of…