State v. Celis-Garcia
Supreme Court of Missouri
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICIA BRECKENRIDGE, Judge.
Maura Celis-Garcia was convicted by a jury of two counts of first-degree statutory sodomy in violation of section 566.062. 1 On appeal, she raises two points of error. First, she claims the trial court violated her constitutional right to a unanimous jury verdict because, although the state presented evidence of multiple, separate acts of hand-to-genital contact committed against her two minor daughters, the verdict directors failed to require the jury to agree to the specific acts she committed to find her guilty of a single count of statutory sodomy against each…
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