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PEOPLE v. ESCOBAR

Docket No. S021858.

3 Cal.4th 740 (1992)

837 P.2d 1100

12 Cal. Rptr.2d 586

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOAQUIN ESCOBAR, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

October 22, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Charles Bush, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp and Daniel E. Lungren, Attorneys General, Richard B. Iglehart and George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Harley D. Mayfield, Assistant Attorney General, Robert M. Foster, Raquel Gonzales, Peter Quon and M. Howard Wayne, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Arlo Smith, District Attorney (San Francisco) and Melody Schallon, Assistant District Attorney, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

ARABIAN, J.

Along with other forms of sexual assault, rape belongs to that class of crimes against the person that can never adequately be redressed. It is the quintessential "violation of the self" (Coker v. Georgia (1977) 433 U.S. 584, 597 [53 L.Ed.2d 982, 992, 97 S.Ct. 2861]), the ultimate affront to the dignity of the human spirit...

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