Defendant contends on appeal that the prosecution did not establish complainant's "earnest resistance" to defendant's "forcible compulsion" and, in any event, the jury's verdict was against the weight of evidence. We conclude otherwise. Complainant, defendant and corroborating witnesses testified to the same general circumstances preceding the rape. It was July 6, 1981; the girl had just returned from a weekend trip to New England with her beau and another male companion...
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