Perchitti v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• use of force proven by “either violence or some other form of physical coercion”
• “It is clear that the legislature sought . . . to impose greater criminal liability upon a defendant who uses force, thereby risking additional harm to the sexual assault victim.”
• no specific unanimity instruction required for charge of sexual assault in fourth degree
• equating reasonable possibility standard with harmless beyond reasonable doubt standard
• there was no prejudice when defense was simple denial that incident had ever occurred, and defendant did not assert that he would have changed his defense if information had charged him with each alternative in separate counts or in con- junctive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).