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Facts

• The Defendant was convicted of three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon upon a peace officer, two counts of battery upon a peace officer, and driving with a revoked license. The convictions stemmed from incidents where the Defendant sequentially swerved his vehicle toward each of three separate police officers, each driving their own police vehicle, in an attempt to evade arrest (para 1).

Procedural History

• [Not applicable or not found]

Parties' Submissions

• Defendant-Appellant: Argued that his conduct constituted only one offense because the events occurred within seconds of each other, there were no intervening acts, each of the acts involved swerving at or from police cars with the same intent, and the three officers were engaged in a combined effort to stop him (para 2).
• Plaintiff-Appellee: The State's arguments are not directly summarized in the decision, but it can be inferred that the State argued for the affirmation of the convictions based on the distinctness of the Defendant's actions toward each officer (para 2).

Legal Issues

• Whether the Defendant's sequential actions of swerving his vehicle toward each of three separate police officers constitute separate offenses for double jeopardy purposes.

Disposition

• The Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's denial of the Defendant's motion to reconsider his sentence on double jeopardy grounds (para 3).

Reasons

• Per J. MILES HANISEE, with M. MONICA ZAMORA and JULIE J. VARGAS, JJ., concurring: The Court concluded that the Defendant's actions of sequentially swerving his vehicle toward each of the three officers, who each drove their own separate police vehicle, were sufficiently distinct acts to constitute separate offenses for double jeopardy purposes. This conclusion was supported by precedents from State v. Olsson and State v. Bernal, which provided a legal framework for distinguishing between single and multiple offenses in the context of double jeopardy. The Court found the Defendant's argument that his acts constituted a single offense unavailing and held that the district court did not err in denying the Defendant's motion on double jeopardy grounds. The Court further concluded that the Defendant's argument did not provide a basis for vacating his multiple convictions on double jeopardy grounds (paras 1-3).