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546 Pa. 511

686 A.2d 825

Commonwealth v. Richter

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 8, 1997

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1997-01-08

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently August 1998

3 state decisions

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Decided 1997-01-08

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¶1ORDER

PER CURIAM:

¶2AND NOW, this 8th day of January, 1997, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is hereby GRANTED, limited to the issue of whether a court can properly admit evidence in a rape trial of the defendant’s past sexual assaults against the victim to explain the victim’s failure to resist and to establish that the intercourse occurred through forcible compulsion or threat of forcible compulsion.

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