State v. Young

OPINION

SHUMAKER, Judge.

Appellant Douglas Wayne Young was tried on three counts of criminal sexual conduct. The jury informed the court that it could reach unanimous verdicts on two counts but not on the third and asked if that could be “a final outcome?”- When the court instructed the jury that it could not, the jury returned verdicts of guilty on all counts.

At the sentencing, the court did not offer to Young an opportunity for allocution.

Young assigns as errors on appeal the trial court’s refusal to permit a deadlock as to one count and the failure to offer an opportunity for allocution.' We…