District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 7/13/1988

Gray v. United States

Citations

544 A.2d 1255
1988 D.C. App. LEXIS 99
1988 WL 77430

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concluding that the single perpetrator’s actions — three acts of rape with \short spatial and temporal separation”— showed \a continuous course of conduct\ with \no significant break between events”
jury unanimity about physical specifics of a sexual attack was unnecessary where the court decided that all the events described by the prosecution constituted one rape
interruptions between acts of rape did not “terminate appellant’s original intent to have and complete sexual intercourse against the will of the complainant”
“A continuing course of conduct may be found even though there has been some spatial or temporal separation between assaultive acts .... ” (citations omitted)
\[T]he interruptions between the second and third acts of intercourse did not terminate appellant’s original intent to have and complete sexual intercourse against the will of the complainant.\
multiple incidents are legally separate when different defenses apply to each

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Judges: MacK, Belson, Terry

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