Opinion ID: 577182
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Text: 1 Defendants-appellants Luke K. Hines and Fred Crenshaw III appeal their December 4, 1990 convictions in the Southern District of Georgia on one count each of aggravated sexual assault, 18 U.S.C. § 2241, and one count each of aiding and abetting one another. 18 U.S.C. § 2. 2 Appellants raise three issues on appeal: (1) The lack of a jury instruction specifically detailing the defense of consent; (2) the testimony given by a Government witness that referred to aliases used by the defendants and to the fact that Crenshaw was incarcerated at the time of questioning; (3) the admission into evidence of mugshots as unfairly prejudicial. We hold that neither the court's failure to give a jury instruction on consent nor the Government's use of aliases was error. We also hold that the court's admission of the testimony referring to Crenshaw's questioning in jail was not an abuse of discretion. The court's admission of the defendants' mugshots, however, was an abuse of discretion and cannot be considered harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. For this reason, we vacate the convictions and remand to the district court for a new trial.