Riley v. Crossings Community Church, Inc.

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• The State must prove that the desire for sexual gratification is a “plausible reason for the act.”
• “[S]exual gratification, like intent, is rarely capable of proof by direct evidence and must usually be inferred from the circumstances.”
• defendant had beaten the victim and, while wielding a knife, had threatened to “fix it” so she could not be with another man, and then he shoved his fist inside her vagina
• defendant had beaten the victim and, while wielding a knife, had threatened to “fix it” so she could not be with another man, and then he shoved his fist inside her vagina
• evaluating proof of sexual gratification under the substantial-evidence standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).