State v. Garcia

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Davis, J.:

This case comes before us on the State’s petition for review concerning the limited issue of whether the defendant’s conviction for aggravated kidnapping and his conviction of one of *141two counts of rape or the one count of aggravated criminal sodomy are multiplicitous as found by the Court of Appeals in an unpublished opinion filed December 17, 1999.

In the afternoon of December 7, 1996, defendant Ray F. Garcia visited the home of A.L.R., age 56, and her husband LeRoy, age 65. The defendant had previously visited their home on “many occasions”…