People v. Farrokhi

After a bench trial, the defendant, Medhi Farrokhi, was convicted of the rape (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 38, par. 11 — 1(a)(2)) of 19-year-old Angela Waters and was sentenced to a term of six years imprisonment.

The defendant maintains on appeal that the rape statute subsection under which he was charged, proscribing sexual relations with a female who is so mentally deranged or so deficient that she cannot give effective consent to intercourse (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 38, par. 11 — 1(a)(2)), requires the State to prove a mental state as an essential element of the crime. Thus, he posits that…