People v. Barbour

PRESIDING JUSTICE STAMOS

delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a bench trial, defendant was convicted of rape and deviate sexual assault. Defendant was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment on the rape conviction; the trial court did not impose sentence on the deviate sexual assault conviction. Defendant appeals.

Defendant is an attorney and was employed, at the time of the incident in question, as an assistant public defender in Cook County. The complainant is a 23-year-old speech therapist. The parties met when defendant introduced himself to the complainant on a downtown Chicago…