State v. Shamp

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

Defendant, William R. Shamp, was convicted of a charge of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, Minn.Stat. § 609.342, subd. l(h)(v) (1986) (sexual penetration of complainant under 16 years old by one having a significant relationship to complainant where the sexual abuse of the complainant involved “multiple acts committed over an extended period of time”), and was sentenced to a 54-month prison term. The court of appeals awarded defendant a new trial because the trial court failed to caution the jury that it could not base the conviction on acts of abuse…