STATE v. FITZGERALD

No. 13476-1-I.

39 Wn. App. 652 (1985)

694 P.2d 1117

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, Respondent, v. VINCENT M.R. FITZGERALD, Appellant.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division One.

January 11, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen & Hansen, P.S., David Allen, and Richard Hansen, for appellant.

Norm Maleng, Prosecuting Attorney, and Michael Schwartz, Deputy, for respondent.


RINGOLD, J.

The defendant, Vincent Michael Reginald Fitzgerald, was found guilty by a jury of two counts of statutory rape. Fitzgerald appeals, arguing that a single verdict on duplicitous counts deprived him of a unanimous jury verdict and that the trial court made several evidentiary errors. We reverse and remand for a new trial.

Fitzgerald frequently traveled to India for business purposes. In 1977 he visited an orphanage in Bombay. This was the first of...

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