State v. Burgert
State v. Burgert
Opinion of the Court
*203Appealing a judgment of conviction for multiple sex offenses, defendant assigns error to (1) the trial court's failure to merge his guilty verdict for first-degree sexual abuse on Count 4 into his guilty verdict for first-degree sodomy on Count 5; and (2) the trial court's failure to merge his guilty verdict for first-degree sexual abuse on Count 11 into his guilty verdict for first-degree sodomy on Count 12. Defendant contends that "the version *170of first-degree sexual abuse at issue in this case does not contain any element that is not also included in the version of first-degree sodomy at issue" and that, therefore, the verdicts must merge under ORS 161.067. That is, defendant argues that first-degree sexual abuse is a lesser-included offense of first-degree sodomy.
Our decision in State v. Moore ,
In a third assignment of error, defendant contends that his 300-month sentence for his first-degree sodomy conviction, which the trial court imposed under ORS 137.700(2)(b)(E), is unconstitutionally disproportionate under Article I, section 16, of the Oregon Constitution and the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We are not persuaded that defendant has met his burden of demonstrating that this is one of the rare instances in which the legislatively prescribed sentence violates either constitution. See, e.g. , State v. Ryan ,
Affirmed.
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