State v. Garrison

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for multiple counts of first-degree sexual abuse, first-degree rape, second-degree unlawful sexual penetration, second-degree sodomy, and second-degree sexual abuse arising from abuse of his children. Defendant raises four assignments of error, challenging the trial court’s denial of his mistrial motion, the calculation of his sentence, and the trial court’s instructions to the jury regarding — and its acceptance of — a nonunanimous jury verdict. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

Because defendant was found guilty, we state the facts in the…