California Court of Appeal

Insufficient evidence of "force" existed to sustain a conviction for forcible rape, where defendant did not use excessive or different force to overcome the victim's will in order to commit the act of sexual intercourse.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/30/2002
• Published 07/30/2002

Judges

• JOHNSON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Patricia A. Scott, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Francisco, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Ana R. Duarte and Allison H. Chung, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.