754 So. 2d 176 - McLean v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “[T]he victim testified that on October 30, 1996, she went to a local bar in Lakeland, Florida. At closing time, the victim began looking for a ride back to her college dorm room. Jason Rancourt told the victim he would take her back to her dorm. The victim voluntarily went with Rancourt and entered the backseat of his car. [McLean] was asleep in the front passenger seat. After the victim noticed Rancourt had passed the dorms, she asked him where he was going. Neither Rancourt nor [McLean] responded, and the victim thought Ranc-ourt was going to take another route to her dorm. Rancourt then pulled the car over in the front yard of a house, opened the passenger door, and grabbed the victim out of the car. After the victim was removed from the car, [McLean] got into the driver’s seat and pulled the car up between 5 and 10 yards. The victim testified that Rancourt then dragged her behind some bushes and pushed her onto the ground, and the two then raped her. [According to the victim, Rancourt raped her first, McLean second, then Rancourt raped her a second time.] Later that evening, the victim was examined by a physician, and semen was found inside her vagina. The physician determined, after DNA tests of both Rancourt and [McLean], that the semen taken from the victim matched Rane-ourt’s DNA. The physician was unable to match any semen with [McLean].”

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