State v. Ramsey’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Defendant would have an appellate court reverse for absence of findings even though, had the matter been called to the sentencing court's attention, applicability of [the statute] might easily have been established. To preserve an error in the face of a possibility that the statute expressly permits consecutive sentences in this situation at hand, a defendant who objects to lack of express findings * * * must place that objection on the record at the time of sentencing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 169 Or. App. 44 - Bacote v. Johnson