State v. Schreiner

Atcheson, J.:

This case requires the court to look at alternative means challenges Defendant Joshua H. Schreiner asserts to convictions for raping and sodomizing his teenage daughter. As to the rape conviction, Schreiner contends the statutory language criminalizing “penetration” of the female genitalia by “a finger, the male sex organ, or any object” creates alternative means of committing the offense. We disagree. As to the aggravated criminal sodomy conviction, we hold Schreiner s alternative means challenge to be barred on appeal as invited error because his trial counsel requested the…