State v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “A. First degree rape is a rape committed upon a person sixty-five years of age or older or where the anal, oral, or vaginal sexual intercourse is deemed to be without lawful consent of the victim because it is committed under any one or more of the following circumstances: (1)When the victim resists the act to the utmost, but whose resistance is overcome by force. (2) When the victim is prevented from resisting the act by threats of great and immediate bodily harm, accompanied by apparent power of execution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 245 So. 3d 233 - State v. Lewis

2. “A. Rape is the act of anal, oral, or vaginal sexual intercourse with a male or female person committed without the person's lawful consent. B. Emission is not necessary, and any sexual penetration, when the rape involves vaginal or anal intercourse, however slight, is sufficient to complete the crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 245 So. 3d 233 - State v. Lewis