Robins v. State

BLACKBURN, Presiding Judge.

Following a jury trial, Derrick Anthony Robins appeals his conviction on multiple counts of armed robbery, rape, and other offenses involving four different victims (two of whom were assaulted at the same time) on three separate dates. He challenges the sufficiency of the evidence and argues that the court erred in failing to sever the three incidents from each other for trial. We hold that the eyewitness identification of Robins as well as the DNA evidence showing his sperm in two of the victims sufficed to sustain the verdict, and that nothing in the record shows…