Legal Opinion

State v. Ortega-Martinez

Washington Supreme Court

Decided September 29, 1994No. 60412-6PublishedCited by 152 opinions

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Petitioner Alejandro Ortega-Martinez seeks reversal of an unpublished Court of Appeals decision affirming his conviction for second degree rape.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…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Griffin v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  3. State v. GreenWashington Supreme Court · 1980
  4. State v. KitchenWashington Supreme Court · 2004
  5. State v. ArndtWashington Supreme Court · 1976

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3Cited by152 opinions

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