# State v. Cloutier

> Oregon Supreme Court · June 12, 1979 · 286 Or. 579

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9601646

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. GASTON CLOUTIER, Petitioner
- **Court:** Oregon Supreme Court
- **Decided:** June 12, 1979
- **Citations:** 286 Or. 579; 596 P.2d 1278; 1979 Ore. LEXIS 975
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Howell
- **Judges:** Holman, Tongue, Howell, Bryson, Lent, Linde
- **Cited by:** 110 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- discussing “the commission of offenses against several victims in a single criminal act or episode, offenses which * * * span events of such diverse penological significance as the traffic offense that fortuitously results in the death of many * * *, and the calculated decisio…
- noting incomplete legislative direc- tion regarding possible “multiple consequences” of a “single criminal act”

## Opinion text

HOWELL, J.,
specially concurring.
I dissented in State v. Woolard, 259 Or 232 , 484 P2d 314 , 485 P2d 1194 (1971). It is obvious that the majority adheres to that decision. Any further expression of dissent would be an exercise in futility. I, therefore, concur in the result.

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