GRAY v. U.S.

No. 87-282.

544 A.2d 1255 (1988)

James E. GRAY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 13, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth B. Nunn, Public Defender Service, pro hac vice, with whom James Klein, Scott W. Howe, and Jennifer P. Lyman, Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

Teresa L. McHenry, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., at the time the brief was filed, and Michael W. Farrell, Elizabeth Trosman, and Terrence J. Keeney, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before MACK, BELSON, and TERRY, Associate Judges.


BELSON, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted of one count of rape in violation of D.C.Code § 22-2801 (1981). On appeal, he contends that his conviction should be overturned because the trial court failed to instruct the jury, sua sponte, that it must reach unanimity with respect to the particular set of facts that constituted the rape. Finding no plain error in the court's failure to give a special unanimity instruction, we affirm.

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