Opinion ID: 4556289
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Heading: Indictment and Re-Indictment

Text: In September 2014, the grand jury returned an indictment, charging Green with twelve offenses. Three months later, Green filed a motion for a bill of particulars, seeking additional information about each of the charges. Specifically, Green asked the State to disclose, among other things, (1) the location and time of day for each offense; (2) for those charges alleging intercourse, the nature (“penile/vaginal, oral, anal, etc.”)15 of the intercourse; and (3) for the charges alleging unlawful sexual contact, the nature of the contact. After the State filed the requested bill of particulars, it presented the matter to the grand jury again, and this time the grand jury returned a twenty-two count indictment. So the State updated its bill of particulars. As we understand the second indictment, which was the operative indictment at Green’s trial, and the updated bill of particulars, the twenty-two counts can be divided into five subsets. The first subset of charges (Counts 1 through 4), according to the State, was committed between February 1, 2012 and August 30, 2012 in Sarah’s bedroom in her family’s Kent Acres residence. Likewise, the second subset 15 App. to Opening Br. at A40. 8 (Counts 5 and 6) was committed in Sarah’s bedroom in the Kent Acres house, but between April 1, 2012 and May 30, 2012. The third subset (Counts 7 through 10) occurred in the basement of Sarah’s family’s Thames Street residence between August 1, 2012 and August 31, 2013. The fourth subset (Counts 11 through 14) occurred between April 15, 2014 and May 15, 2014 in an unidentified room within the family’s Stevens Street residence. And the fifth subset relates to the assault in Sarah’s bedroom in the Stevens Street residence that brought this matter to a head on May 28, 2014. For clarity’s sake, we will refer to the first two subsets as the Kent Acres Allegations, the third as the Thames Street Allegations, the fourth as the Prior Stevens Street Allegations, and the last group as the May 28, 2014 Allegations.