State v. Parker

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

O’HERN, J.

Defendant contends that her conviction, of official misconduct as a teacher should be reversed because the trial court’s instructions did not ensure a unanimous jury verdict. She argues that because the indictment charged multiple instances of misconduct and the jury did not convict her of each of the specifically-charged acts of sexual assault and endangerment, the jurors may have reached a compromise verdict on the official-misconduct count, with some believing that she had committed certain of the acts charged and some believing that she…