State v. Stanton

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for five counts of unlawful use of a weapon with a firearm, ORS 166.220;1 ORS 161.610(2). He assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his request to merge the guilty verdicts for the five counts, pursuant to the “anti-merger” statute, ORS 161.067(1). Defendant makes two arguments that his guilty verdicts should have merged. First, he argues that, when he fired five shots toward a group of people, there was a single class of persons constituting “one victim.” Second, defendant argues that there was no sufficient pause in his conduct. We review for…