State v. Ramirez

OPINION

WOOD, Chief Judge.

Defendant’s appeal involves a question of venue. He has been convicted of ten counts of CSP II (criminal sexual penetration in the second degree) perpetrated by the use of force or coercion which results in personal injury to the victim. He has also been convicted of one count of kidnapping.

Five of the CSP offenses involve fellatio; five involve anal intercourse. The victim of these events was a hitchhiker. Defendant and two companions picked up the hitchhiker in El Paso, Texas and drove north on the interstate highway to Albuquerque. There is no claim that venue, in…