State v. Cuni’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “[T]he judge properly denied the prosecution's request to charge the jury as to the crime of sexual contact, a crime not involving vaginal intercourse but rather an intentional touching of the victim's intimate parts. See N.J.S.A. 2C:14-1(d). The judge is required to charge the jury on a lesser-included offense only if there is "a rational basis for a verdict convicting the defendant of the included offense." N.J.S.A. 2C:1-8(e); see also State v. Moore, 113 N.J. 239, 289 , 550 A. 2d 117 (1988). Here, there was no rational basis for a conviction of sexual contact.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 366 N.J. Super. 185 - State v. Muhammed

2. “Q. What did you find her verbal skills to be? A. [T.O.] was very fluent, very spontaneous!,] spoke! ] in complete sentences. She was engaging — she had a sense of humor. She responded fully and openly to everything I asked her. She appeared very relaxed. She came across as more verbal than the scores would have led me to believe. If I only had her scores, in other words, and didn’t see her I would have expected less verbal [ lability than.I actually saw. She conversed very fluently.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Cuni

3. “let him” have intercourse with her. On the second occasion she was 19 or 20 and still going to high school and [another male] asked her to play pool at his place. She went. He undid her clothes and,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Cuni