Opinion
C091646CR; A150750.
2014-01-23
STATE of Oregon, Plaintiff–Respondent, v. Shane Christopher DISNEY, aka Shane Robert Clark, Defendant–Appellant.
Washington County Circuit Court. Thomas W. Kohl, Judge. Randall Vogt argued the cause for appellant. With him on the reply brief was Randall Vogt, PC. On the opening brief were Peter Gartlan, Chief Defender, and Erica Herb, Deputy Public Defender, Office of Public Defense Services. Matt Lynse, Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent. On the answering brief were Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, Anna M. Joyce, Solicitor General, and Leigh A. Salmon, Assistant Attorney General.
Washington County Circuit Court.
Thomas W. Kohl, Judge.
Randall Vogt argued the cause for appellant. With him on the reply brief was Randall Vogt, PC. On the opening brief were Peter Gartlan, Chief Defender, and Erica Herb, Deputy Public Defender, Office of Public Defense Services. Matt Lynse, Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent. On the answering brief were Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, Anna M. Joyce, Solicitor General, and Leigh A. Salmon, Assistant Attorney General.
Before ORTEGA, Presiding Judge, and DUNCAN, Judge, and DeVORE, Judge.
PER CURIAM.
Defendant seeks reversal of his convictions for two counts of first-degree sexual abuse, ORS 163.427. First, he contends that the trial court's admission of a videotaped interview of the child victim violated OEC 403 because the interview was “overly prejudicial in comparison to its probative value.” Second, he argues that the court erred by allowing the jury to access the videotaped interview during its deliberations. And third, he asserts that the court erred when it refused to merge his guilty verdicts for first-degree sexual abuse.
We reject defendant's first and second assignments of error without further discussion. As to defendant's third assignment of error, the state concedes that defendant's two convictions for first-degree sexual abuse should have merged into a single conviction because the convictions were based on a single act of sexual contact that was charged under different theories of the single offense of first-degree sexual abuse. ORS 161.067(3); see State v. Parkins, 346 Or. 333, 355, 211 P.3d 262 (2009) (legislature intended to create a single crime of first-degree sexual abuse for single incident of sexual touching). We agree, and accept the state's concession.
Reversed and remanded with instructions to merge defendant's conviction on Count 2 into his conviction on Count 3 and for resentencing; otherwise affirmed.