P. v. Castroconde CA1/1
After sexually molesting Jane Doe on one occasion when she was nine years old, defendant Jaime Castroconde was charged with three counts of lewd acts upon a child under 14. A jury convicted him of two counts and acquitted him of the third, and the trial court sentenced him to three years in state prison. On appeal, Castroconde claims that the court erred by refusing to require the jury to make a special finding identifying the act relied upon to convict him of any count. He also claims that one of the acts relied upon by the prosecution, that he put a banana between Jane’s legs, violated the corpus delicti rule because the only evidence it occurred was his statement to the police. We reject these claims and affirm.
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