Case Name: STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. SEAN THOMAS STEPHENS, Appellant
Court: Oregon Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 2002-11-06
Citations: 184 Or. App. 751
Docket Number: 01C41812; A114525
Parties: STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. SEAN THOMAS STEPHENS, Appellant.
Judges: Before Brewer, Presiding Judge, and Wollheim and Kistler, Judges.
Reporter: Oregon Reports, Court of Appeals
Volume: 184
Pages: 751–752

Head Matter:
On appellant’s and respondent’s joint motion to vacate the judgment and remand for further proceedings filed September 23,
vacated in part; remanded for further proceedings November 6, 2002
STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. SEAN THOMAS STEPHENS, Appellant.
01C41812; A114525
56 P3d 964
David E. Groom, Acting Executive Director, Office of Public Defense Services, and Rebecca Duncan, Deputy Public Defender, and Hardy Myers, Attorney General, Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General, and Michael J. Slauson, Assistant Attorney General, for motion.
Before Brewer, Presiding Judge, and Wollheim and Kistler, Judges.
PER CURIAM

Opinion:
PER CURIAM
Defendant and the state have jointly moved to vacate the judgment in this case convicting defendant of assault in the fourth degree. We grant the motion.
On March 14, 2001, defendant appeared in court with counsel to plead guilty to the charge of fourth-degree assault. At the state's request, the trial court continued the hearing in order to address a possible error in the indictment. As a result, defendant did not enter a plea at the hearing. The matter was continued again on April 19. On April 25, 2001, defendant appeared with counsel and, although nothing in the record indicates that defendant had pleaded guilty at that or any other time, the court sentenced defendant on the assault charge. Because there is no evidence in the record showing that defendant actually pleaded guilty to the charged offense, the trial court erred in entering a judgment of conviction on the basis that defendant had pleaded guilty.
Judgment of conviction vacated; remanded for further proceedings.