State v. Ysaguire

EXUM, Justice.

Through this appeal, defendant seeks review of his convictions and sentences for two sexual assaults, a burglary and a robbery. He contends there were errors in the process by which his jury was selected and the trial judge’s imposition of consecutive sentences. We find no error in either the guilt or sentencing phases.

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On 2 June 1982, the victim of these crimes, a 63-year-old retired school teacher, registered and checked into a room at Johnson’s Motor Lodge in Smithfield, North Carolina, stopping overnight while en route to New York from Orlando, Florida. Late that evening,…