State v. Christensen

SNELL, Judge.

On April 11, 1986, the appellant, Ronald Gene Christensen, Jr., was charged by trial information with sexual abuse in the third-degree, false imprisonment, and assault with intent to inflict serious injury. Those charges stemmed from allegations of Christensen’s physical and sexual abuse of Debora Delp, a woman with whom Christensen lived from February 28 to March 12, 1986. Trial commenced on July 14, 1986, and two days later the jury returned verdicts finding Christensen guilty as charged on the sexual abuse and assault counts. The jury acquitted Christensen of the false…