McDonald v. Ouachita Commercial Insurance Agency, Inc.

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• holding that direct verbal or physical commands to the victim were sufficient evidence of contact
• concluding that nine-year-old victim’s testimony that “[ajppel-lant’s acts were bad, did not feel right, and that she was afraid and angry at [appellant” were sufficient to establish victim’s lack of consent
• holding that unlawful contact with a minor can be inferred where the victim’s pants were removed and that could not have occurred absent a verbal or physical directive from Velez
• holding that unlawful contact with a minor can be inferred where the victim’s pants were removed and that could not have occurred absent a verbal or physical directive from Velez
• holding that contact element of unlawful contact with minor was met with reasonable inference that defendant directed nine- year-old victim, either verbally or nonverbally, to undress and to position herself in sexual way
• noting that evidence of contact must exceed the evidence necessary to sustain the conviction for a sexual offense and that jury could have inferred that the defendant directed the victim to unclothe or place her knees in the air

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).