Reese v. State

In reversing the judgment of the court of appeals, the majority finds “confusion among the jurors” and faults counsel for appellant for failures to object. Yet it is clear enough to me that a verdict finding appellant guilty of compelling prostitution and not guilty of prostitution is not a product of “confusion,” and, further assuming counsel was even aware of that verdict, that he had any ground for objecting.

After all, the whole contretemps arose when the judge of the trial court unilaterally determined that the first signed verdict form for prostitution offenses was, as the State…