Case ID: or-app_202/html/0213-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Submitted on record and briefs September 9,
    sentence vacated; remanded for resentencing; otherwise affirmed October 12, 2005
    STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. MICHAEL TERRY HUTCHISON, Appellant.
    
    03C-50600; A124500
    121 P3d 698
    Keith L. Hayes filed the brief for appellant.
    Hardy Myers, Attorney General, Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General, and Elizabeth A. Gordon, Senior Assistant Attorney General, filed the brief for respondent.
    Before Haselton, Presiding Judge, and Armstrong and Rosenblum, Judges.
    PER CURIAM
   PER CURIAM

Defendant was convicted of third-degree sodomy and received an upward departure sentence of 28 months of incarceration based on findings that defendant had been persistently involved in similar offenses and that prior sanctions had failed to deter him. Defendant argues that, under Blakely v. Washington, 542 US 296, 124 S Ct 2531, 159 L Ed 2d 403 (2004), and Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 US 466, 120 S Ct 2348, 147 L Ed 2d 435 (2000), the court erred in imposing a departure sentence based on facts that were not found by a jury or admitted by defendant, in violation of his rights under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Although he did not advance such a challenge to the trial court, he argues that the sentence should be reviewed as plain error. Under our decision in State v. Perez, 196 Or App 364, 102 P3d 705 (2004), rev allowed, 338 Or 488 (2005), the sentence is plainly erroneous. For the reason set forth in Perez, we exercise our discretion to correct the error.

Sentence vacated; remanded for resentencing; otherwise affirmed.