Legal Opinion
State v. Ayer
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided September 1, 1992No. 91-272PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBatchelder, J.
The defendant, Anthony Ayer, appeals his conviction, after a jury trial in Superior Court (Dunn, J.), of aggravated felonious sexual assault, RSA 632-A:2. He contends that the trial court erred in not dismissing the indictment for charging “knowingly” as the requisite mental element, and in refusing to instruct the jury that, to convict, it must find that the defendant knew that the victim did not consent. We affirm.
On the evening of May 4,1990, the victim and a friend attended a small party at the Dover apartment of a friend, Mark Tallent. The defendant was among the ten or fifteen people…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- United States v. BaileySupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- People v. LangworthyMichigan Supreme Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
- State v. WeitzmanSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1981
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1985
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3Cited by28 opinions
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- State v. BassettSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1995
- Commonwealth v. MinorSupreme Court of Virginia · 2004
- State v. ChhomWashington Supreme Court · 1996
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