RUCKER, Judge.
This case presents the issue of whether the physical restraint of a victim combined with verbal threats and sexually explicit requests for sex constitute a substantial step toward the commission of a rape. We find they do and therefore affirm.
On February 13, 1991, at approximately twelve o'clock noon, the sixteen-year-old victim in this case was walking to a convenience store in Fort Wayne, Indiana. A block or so away from the store a male...
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