People v. Schuning

Following a jury trial in the circuit court of Du Page County, the defendant, Timothy M. Schuning, was convicted of rape and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. The appellate court, with one justice dissenting, affirmed that judgment (125 Ill. App. 3d 808), and we allowed the defendant’s petition for leave to appeal (94 Ill. 2d R. 315(a)). At trial the defendant admitted having sexual intercourse with the complaining witness on the occasion in question and asserted., as a defense, that the act was consensual; his credibility was impeached, however, through the introduction into evidence…