Court Opinion

ID: 2551215
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124 P.3d 1292 (2005)
203 Or. App. 541
STATE of Oregon, Respondent,
v.
Randy Leon MORRIS, Appellant.
03C-42143; A122128.
Court of Appeals of Oregon.
Submitted on Record and Briefs December 7, 2005.
Decided December 28, 2005.
James N. Varner, Dundee, filed the opening brief for appellant. Randy Morris filed the supplemental brief pro se.
Hardy Myers, Attorney General, Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General, and Elizabeth A. Gordon, Senior Assistant Attorney General, filed the brief for respondent.
*1293 Before HASELTON, Presiding Judge, and BREWER, Chief Judge, and ROSENBLUM, Judge.
PER CURIAM.
Defendant was convicted of two counts of felony fourth-degree assault, ORS 163.160, and received consecutive upward departure sentences on those convictions. The court based the departure sentences on findings that prior probations and incarcerations had not deterred criminal behavior and that defendant had been persistently involved in similar offenses. On appeal, defendant argues that, under Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296, 124 S. Ct. 2531, 159 L. Ed. 2d 403 (2004), and Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S. Ct. 2348, 147 L. Ed. 2d 435 (2000), the court erred in imposing departure sentences 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 defendant did not advance such a challenge before the trial court, he argues that the sentences should be reviewed as plain error. We agree. We have held that judicial factfinding on aggravating factors such as those involved here runs afoul of the rule of law announced in Blakely. See, e.g., State v. Perez, 196 Or.App. 364, 102 P.3d 705 (2004), rev. allowed, 338 Or. 488, 113 P.3d 434 (2005); State v. Allen, 198 Or.App. 392, 108 P.3d 651 (2005), adh'd to on recons., 202 Or.App. 565, 123 P.3d 331 (2005). For the reason set forth in Perez, we exercise our discretion to correct the error.
Sentences vacated; remanded for resentencing; otherwise affirmed.