Legal Opinion

State v. Celis-Garcia

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided June 14, 2011No. SC 90980PublishedCited by 118 opinions

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…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. Apodaca v. OregonSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  2. State v. KitchenWashington Supreme Court · 2004
  3. State v. ArceoHawaii Supreme Court · 1996
  4. Keveney v. Missouri Military AcademySupreme Court of Missouri · 2010
  5. State v. GardnerOhio Supreme Court · 2008

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3Cited by118 opinions

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  3. Hervey v. Missouri Department of CorrectionsSupreme Court of Missouri · 2012
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  5. Louis Edward Mallow v. State of MissouriSupreme Court of Missouri · 2014

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