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STATE of Oregon, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Dionicii BASARGIN, Defendant-Appellant.
Defendant asserts on appeal that the trial court erroneously relied on two Alaska convictions for fourth-degree assault to classify his criminal history score as Category B. In defendant's view, the Alaska fourth-degree assault statute that he violated in 2001 and 2006 has been construed more broadly than this state's fourth-degree assault statute, ORS 163.160, and, because neither the accusatory instruments nor the judgments for the Alaska convictions demonstrated that the convictions matched the elements of the Oregon offense, the trial could not consider them when it classified defendant's criminal history. See State v. Tapp, 110 Or. App. 1, 4, 821 P.2d 1098 (1991) (to rely on an out-of-state conviction in calculating a defendant's criminal history score, the state must demonstrate that the elements of the out-of-state offense would have constituted a felony or Class A misdemeanor under Oregon law); State v. Provencio, 153 Or. App. 90, 95, 955 P.2d 774 (1998) (“[I]t was incumbent on the state to demonstrate by way of the accusation instrument and the judgment that defendant's [out-of-state] conviction in fact matched the elements of the Oregon offense[.]”). The state concedes the error; we agree and accept the concession. We therefore remand for resentencing.
Remanded for resentencing; otherwise affirmed.
PER CURIAM
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Docket No: A174265
Decided: December 15, 2021
Court: Court of Appeals of Oregon.
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