Supreme Court of California

An alleged victim's withdrawal of consent effectively nullifies any earlier consent and subjects the male to forcible rape charges under Penal Code section 261(a)(2), if he persists in what has become nonconsensual intercourse.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/06/2003
• Published 01/06/2003

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Carol L. Foster, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Sacramento, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Michael J. Weinberg, Stan Cross and John G. McLean, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Wendy J. Murphy, Boston, MA, Barbara F. Berenson, Cambridge, MA;  Gina S. McClard, Douglas E. Beloof, Portland, OR;  Bingham McCutchen, Leslie G. Landau and Alison Beck, Boston, MA, for the Victim Advocacy and Research Group, the National Crime Victim Law Institute, the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.