State v. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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1. “The prosecuting witness was a married woman, 20 years of age, who was 6 months pregnant at the time of the offense. The defendant and two companions, Laurens Albert and Duane Ives, had spent a part of the afternoon and evening of July 4, 1977, drinking. While driving around in an automobile owned by Ives, they came upon the prosecuting witness and offered to take her home. Shortly before that they had given her a ride to the Regional Center west of Hastings, Nebraska. Instead of taking her home, they drove out into the country north and east of town and parked on a country road. The prosecuting witness left the automobile and started walking or running down the road. The defendant followed her, pushed her into the ditch, and threatened to harm her unborn baby if she did not submit. When she tried to get away the defendant choked her and told her that he “would really hurt' the baby” if she tried that again. The defendant forced her to attempt an act of fellatio and then had intercourse with her. The prosecuting witness was then taken back to town. When she arrived back at her home her clothing was wet, her hair “was a mess,” and “she was all messed up.” She immediately told her husband what had happened. The police were called and then she was taken to the hospital where she was examined by a physician. State v. Rhodes, 201 Neb. 576 , 270 N.W.2d 920 , 921-22 (1978).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rhodes v. Foster