State v. Ortega-Martinez
Washington Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
*705Utter, J.
Petitioner Alejandro Ortega-Martinez seeks reversal of an unpublished Court of Appeals decision affirming his conviction for second degree rape. A jury unanimously convicted Ortega-Martinez of second degree rape, but did not specify by which of two alternative means he committed the rape. Ortega-Martinez appealed, arguing he was entitled to a showing the jury unanimously agreed on the means by which he committed the rape. The Court of Appeals affirmed his conviction, reasoning under the authority of a recent United States Supreme Court decision that a defendant is not entitled to a…
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