Steven W. Vaught v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIS, Justice.
[¶1] Steven Vaught appeals convictions for two counts of first-degree sexual assault under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 6-2-302(a)(ii) and one count of kidnapping under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 6-2-201(a)(iii), (d) 1 We affirm.
ISSUES
[¶2] Vaught raises two issues relating to jury instructions, which we condense as follows: ~
I. Did the district court commit plain error by failing to instruct the jury 'that confinement would not support a kidnapping conviction unless it was separate from and not merely an incident of the sexual assaults? 2 «
II. Did the district court's reply to a question from the…
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