The sole question presented is whether there is a reasonable likelihood that the trial court's instruction to the jury on second-degree rape impermissibly lessened the State's burden to prove the elements of force and lack of consent beyond a reasonable doubt. Because the trial court failed to instruct the jurors that they must find the dispositive fact in this case beyond a reasonable doubt, we hold that...
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