State v. Fitzgerald

— The defendant, Vincent Michael Reginald Fitzgerald, was found guilty by a jury of two counts of statutory rape. Fitzgerald appeals, arguing that a single verdict on duplicitous counts deprived him of a unanimous jury verdict and that the trial court made several evidentiary errors. We reverse and remand for a new trial.

Fitzgerald frequently traveled to India for business purposes. In 1977 he visited an orphanage in Bombay. This was the first of many visits. A girl, "A", born January 23, 1973, and a resident in the orphanage, was adopted by Fitzgerald and his wife. She was brought to the…