Nwafor

People v. Nwafor

Good Law
1996 Cal. App. LEXIS 539·46 Cal. App. 4th 39·53 Cal. Rptr. 2d 564·96 Daily Journal DAR 6546·96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 4086
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJune 5, 1996B086245California2,266 words

Opinion

Opinion

Woods, J.

In this multiple-conviction child molestation case, appellant’s principal contention is evidentiary insufficiency that some of the offenses were committed during the period they were alleged to have been committed. We find this and the other contentions meritless and affirm the judgment.

Procedural and Factual Background

By amended information appellant was charged with 14 offenses; 13 involved victim Uchenna O., 1 involved her older sister Ihunna. The jury convicted appellant of twelve, acquitted him of one, and hung on one, the sole offense involving Ihunna.

As to these 12 offenses, all involving Uchenna O., 4 were alleged to have occurred during the period June 1, 1988, through August 31, 1989. Counts I, II, and III were acts of sexual intercourse in violations of Penal Code section 288, subdivision (a). (Statutory references, unless otherwise noted, are to the Penal Code.) Count IV (§ 288, subd. (a)) involved masturbation of appellant.

Counts V and VI (§ 288, subd. (c)), intercourse and masturbation, were alleged to have occurred during the period June 1, 1990, through August 31, 1990.

Counts VII (§ 288, subd. (c): sexual intercourse), VIII (§ 288, subd. (c):…

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