Blumer sentenced to 50 months in 2020 baseball bat assault
By Tom Peterson
Sean Alan Blumer, 46
Forty-six-year-old Sean Alan Blumer, formerly of Portland, was handcuffed outside the courtroom after his sentencing today, June 27, in Wasco County Circuit Court.
He was sentenced after pleading guilty to second-degree attempted assault last week and will spend years behind bars.
However, the victim, who was beaten with a baseball bat, will never be the same.
“His life was fundamentally altered because of the actions of one person,” said Wasco County Chief Deputy District Attorney Kara Davis. “It was a brutal assault that left the victim with permanent brain damage.”
Circuit Judge Janet Stauffer accepted the terms of Blumer’s plea agreement with the Wasco County District Attorney’s Office and sentenced Blumer to 50 months in prison.
The charge against Blumer was originally first-degree assault, but through the plea negotiations, Blumer consented to plead guilty to the lesser included offense of second-degree attempted assault.
In the plea agreement, signed by Blumer, it states “I took a substantial step to intentionally cause serious physical injury” to the victim.
The plea agreement and sentence give credit for time already served and require Blumer to complete three years of post-prison supervision. He is also eligible for receiving time off his sentence for good behavior, and prison programs.
Blumer was due to be transported to Oregon’s Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville after his sentencing this morning.
Blumer’s charges and sentencing stem from the alleged assault on June 23, 2020.
Blumer was arrested two years ago on multiple felonies stemming from the brutal beating of a man in The Dalles Fred Meyer parking lot at 1 a.m.
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The victim was critically injured and sustained a traumatic brain injury.
On that day, 911 dispatch received a call and could hear the victim screaming. It was reported that they thought the victim had been beaten with a baseball bat.
The Dalles Police and Wasco County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the call for help, and upon arrival, a police officer found an unconscious male subject with extensive injuries to his head and face.
The victim was transported to Mid-Columbia Medical Center, and later to Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, where he was initially placed in critical condition.
Davis said the man never fully recovered from the injury, making the case difficult to prosecute.
As a result of the injury, Davis said the man struggles with regulating his emotions and she had to weigh whether to put the victim through the trauma of reliving the beating again at trial.
Blumer, through his attorney, made it clear that he was going to claim self-defense if the case went to trial, which would open the victim to additional questioning.
Ultimately, the DA’s office determined it was better to get the 50-month commitment to prison from Blumer rather than risking a mistrial.
Davis said the maximum sentence Blumer could have received was 90 months based on the charges filed against him in the indictment.
In exchange for the plea, the other five charges, two counts of first-degree robbery, second-degree assault, first-degree attempted murder, and second-degree attempted murder, were dropped.
