People v. Bastin

Opinion by

Judge BRIGGS.

Defendant, James Bastin, appeals the judgments of conviction entered on jury verdicts finding him guilty of first degree sexual assault, sexual assault on a child, and felony murder. He challenges the trial court’s change in a jury instruction after closing arguments and the sufficiency of the evidence to support the underlying sexual assault convictions. We affirm.

A twelve-year-old girl was the victim of a violent sexual assault. She was then strangled to death, and her body was thrown into a dumpster, dowsed with gasoline, and set on fire.

At trial, numerous witnesses…