State v. Celis-Garcia

How courts have described this case

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• holding that in a “multiple acts” case, the jury instructions “must describe the separate criminal acts with specificity” and “must instruct the jury to agree unanimously on at least one of the specific criminal acts described in the verdict director”
• holding, (1) a criminal defendant has a right to a unanimous jury verdict in the context of a multiple acts case; and that (2
• stating that courts may consider “whether there was an intervening event” or “fresh impulse motivating some of the conduct” in determining if a case is á multiple act case
• listing factors the court should consider when determining if a case is a multiple acts case
• distinguishing characteristics are to be included in a verdict director in a “multiple acts” case where necessary to preserve the right to a unanimous jury verdict
• stating a defendant’s right to a unanimous verdict would be protected by the state “electing the particular criminal act on which it will rely to support the charge”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).