State v. Laird

Submitted April 30; remanded for resentencing, otherwise affirmed June 9, 2021

STATE OF OREGON,

Plaintiff-Respondent, v.

GARY DUANE LAIRD,

Defendant-Appellant.

Multnomah County Circuit Court 18CR05891; A170577 487 P3d 878

Gregory F. Silver, Judge.

Ryan T. O’Connor and O’Connor Weber LLC filed the brief for appellant.

Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, Benjamin Gutman, Solicitor General, and Patrick M. Ebbett, Assistant Attorney General, filed the brief for respondent.

Before Shorr, Presiding Judge, and Powers, Judge, and Hadlock, Judge pro tempore.

PER CURIAM

Remanded for resentencing; otherwise affirmed.

264 State v. Laird PER CURIAM

In this criminal case, defendant appeals from a judg- ment convicting him of strangulation constituting domes- tic violence, ORS 163.187; unlawful use of a weapon with a firearm, ORS 166.220; second-degree assault constituting domestic violence, ORS 163.175; and fourth-degree assault constituting domestic violence, ORS 163.160. The trial court imposed an aggregate prison sentence of 130 months con- secutive to a previously imposed sentence arising out of a case in Clackamas County Circuit Court. More specifically, as part of that 130-month aggregate sentence, the court imposed a five-year gun-minimum sentence under ORS 161.610 on the unlawful use of a weapon-firearm conviction. On appeal, defendant raises eight assignments of error, and we reject all but one of those assignments with- out discussion. In his eighth assignment of error, defendant contends that the trial court plainly erred when it imposed a five-year gun minimum under ORS 161.610.1 Recognizing that defendant previously was convicted of a qualifying fel- ony in Clackamas County, the state concedes that the trial court plainly erred in imposing a second gun-minimum sentence. We agree, accept the state’s concession, and exer- cise our discretion to correct the error. See State v. Wells, 82 Or App 283, 286, 728 P2d 533 (1986) (explaining that, under a prior version of ORS 161.610, the trial court “had no authority to impose a second five-year minimum sentence” in Marion County after the defendant had already received a five-year gun-minimum sentence in Polk County); see also State v. Birchard (A62487), 105 Or App 400, 401, 804 P2d 1224, rev den, 311 Or 427 (1991) (holding that the trial court plainly erred by imposing a gun-minimum sentence in vio- lation of ORS 161.610 and exercising discretion to correct it). Remanded for resentencing; otherwise affirmed.