Basurto v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, J.:

Eric Robichaud, invited by Raphael Basurto who was a casual acquaintance for about eight years, attended a party at which he was compelled to commit certain homosexual acts upon other people at the party. In his testimony, he detailed the coercion exercised upon him and the beatings that followed the acts which took place at the dwelling and again in the desert and Basurto’s involvement in these activities. In one instance he was threatened with murder.

The trial judge instructed the jury on consent, defined an accomplice and its significance (that an…