Case ID: or-app_256/html/0128-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Submitted March 1,
    reversed and remanded with instructions to merge conviction for unlawful use of a weapon (Count 3) into conviction for assault in the second degree (Count 2) and for resentencing; otherwise affirmed April 3, 2013
    STATE OF OREGON, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. DONALD IRA WYTCHERLEY, Defendant-Appellant.
    
    Josephine County Circuit Court
    10CR0659; A149051
    299 P3d 606
    Rankin Johnson IV filed the brief for appellant.
    Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, Anna M. Joyce, Solicitor General, and Janet A. Klapstein, Senior Assistant Attorney General, filed the brief for respondent.
    Before Schuman, Presiding Judge, and Wollheim, Judge, and Duncan, Judge.
    PER CURIAM
   PER CURIAM

A jury found defendant guilty of one count of second-degree assault and one count of unlawful use of a weapon. Both counts were based on a single incident in which defendant shot his brother in the leg. The trial court entered two separate convictions, and defendant appeals.

In a single assignment of error, defendant argues that the trial court plainly erred in entering two separate convictions rather than merging the guilty verdicts into a single conviction for second-degree assault. The state, for its part, concedes that the trial court plainly erred in that regard. See State v. Ryder, 230 Or App 432, 216 P3d 895 (2009). We accept the state’s concession and, for the reasons expressed in Ryder, 230 Or App at 435, exercise our discretion to correct the error.

Reversed and remanded with instructions to merge conviction for unlawful use of a weapon (Count 3) into conviction for assault in the second degree (Count 2) and for resentencing; otherwise affirmed. 
      
       Defendant was acquitted on a charge of attempted murder with a firearm.