Dean v. State

VOIGT, Justice.

[T1] Appellant was convicted of one count of kidnapping, one count of first-degree sexual assault, and two counts of third-degree sexual assault. This appeal raises issues of the failure to give lesser-included offense instructions, sufficiency of the evidence, and speedy trial. Finding no error, we affirm.

ISSUES

1. Did the trial court err in refusing to instruct the jury that false imprisonment is a lesser-included offense of kidnapping?

2, Did the trial court err in refusing to instruct the jury that sexual battery is a lesser-included offense of both first-degree and…