STATE of Tennessee v. DeWayne COLLIER AKA Patrick Collier

How courts have described this case

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

• overruling prior case law classifying victims of statutory rape as accomplices and requiring corroborative evidence
• “Although the defendant claimed that [touching the victim’s bottom was] a gesture of approval and friendship, it was the jury’s prerogative to reject that theory.”
• An accomplice is ―one who knowingly, voluntarily, and with common intent with the principal unites in the commission of a crime.‖
• “As a matter of law, a minor is indeed incapable of consenting to a statutory rape.”
• “[I]t has long been the rule in our state that the uncorroborated testimony of a minor victim may be sufficient to sustain a conviction for forcible or coercive sex offenses such as simple rape.”
• “[I]t has long been the rule in our state that the uncorroborated testimony of a minor victim may be sufficient to sustain a conviction for forcible or coercive sex offenses such as simple rape.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).