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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