Drummond v. State

JACOBS, Justice:

Dallas H. Drummond, Jr., the defendant-below, appeals directly from his convictions, by a Superior Court jury, of two counts of First Degree Rape and one count of Unlawful Conduct Against a Child by a Sex Offender (“Unlawful Conduct”). Drummond claims that the trial court reversibly erred by denying his (and the State’s) joint motion to sever the Rape charges from the Unlawful Conduct charge. While Drummond’s appeal was pending, we decided Monceaux v. State,1 which relevantly holds that a trial court “must use a bifurcated procedure in all future [Unlawful Conduct Against a…