State v. Ashland

SCOTT, Justice.

Defendant was charged in district court with six counts of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree. Specifically, he was charged with two counts each — one alleging force or coercion plus aggravated circumstances in the form of severe mental anguish, the other alleging that the complainant feared imminent great bodily harm— for each of three acts of sexual misconduct. Minn.Stat. § 609.342 (1976). Defendant did not request submission of any lesser offenses and none was submitted. The jury acquitted defendant of two counts relating to one of the acts but found him guilty of…