California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Stanford, E064552 (Cal. App. 2017):
As to count 2, the prosecutor again mentioned the various acts by defendant, including the kicking of the victim after she was unconscious, as satisfying the elements of the aggravated assault count. Neither the probation report nor the court mentioned separate objectives. If the People had elected to pursue the separate counts as discrete acts, a unanimity instruction would have been required because the testimony revealed numerous acts which allegedly constituted three discrete crimes. (People v. Grimes (2016) 1 Cal.5th 698, 727.) A requirement of jury unanimity typically applies to acts that
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