State of Oregon v. Risen

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that “mere words” were not sufficient to establish resistance; rather, resistance “must be reasonably proportionate to [the victim’s] strength and *** opportunities”
• \Some latitude should be allowed to a prosecuting attorney in his argument in a criminal case in which there is evidence sufficient to justify a denunciation of the defendant's conduct in strong terms[.]\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).