Counts 4 and 5 reversed and remanded · Decided 2022-04-13
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Submitted February 28; Counts 4 and 5 reversed and remanded, remanded for
resentencing, otherwise affirmed April 13, 2022
STATE OF OREGON,
Plaintiff-Respondent,
v.
JEREMIAH ANDREW LIBBEE,
Defendant-Appellant.
Washington County Circuit Court
19CR38893; A172151
Janelle F. Wipper, Judge.
Ernest G. Lannet, Chief Defender, Criminal Appellate
Section, and David Sherbo-Huggins, Deputy Public Defender,
Office of Public Defense Services, filed the brief for appellant.
Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, Benjamin Gutman,
Solicitor General, and Jordan R. Silk, Assistant Attorney
General, filed the brief for respondent.
Before Ortega, Presiding Judge, and Powers, Judge, and
Hellman, Judge.
PER CURIAM
Counts 4 and 5 reversed and remanded; remanded for
resentencing; otherwise affirmed.
86 State v. Libbee
PER CURIAM
A jury convicted defendant of second-degree assault,
ORS 163.175 (Count 1); third-degree assault, ORS 163.165
(Counts 2 and 3); failure to perform the duties of a driver,
ORS 811.705 (Counts 4 and 5); fleeing or attempting to elude
a police officer, ORS 811.540 (Count 6); reckless driving, ORS
811.140 (Count 7); and driving while suspended or revoked,
ORS 811.182(4) (Count 9).1 The jury was unanimous as to all
verdicts, except Counts 4 and 5. The guilty verdicts on Counts
2 and 3 were merged into the verdict on Count 1, and the verdict on Count 5 was merged into the verdict on Count 4.
On appeal, defendant raises four assignments of
error. We reject without written discussion defendant’s first
two assignments. In assignments three and four, defendant
argues, and the state concedes, that the trial court erred
under Ramos v. Louisiana,
(2020), in instructing the jury that it may return nonunanimous guilty verdicts and in accepting nonunanimous verdicts on Counts 4 and 5. We agree and accept the state’s
concession. Accordingly, we reverse and remand defendant’s
conviction on Count 4. The guilty verdict for Count 5, which
the trial court merged into Count 4 and therefore disposed of
without a conviction, must also be reversed and remanded.
Counts 4 and 5 reversed and remanded; remanded
for resentencing; otherwise affirmed.
1
Defendant was acquitted of Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicants,
ORS 813.010 (Count 8).