Legal Opinion
People v. Escobar
California Supreme Court
Decided October 22, 1992No. S021858PublishedCited by 127 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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ARABIAN, J.
Along with other forms of sexual assault, rape belongs to that class of crimes against the person that can never adequately be redressed. It is the quintessential “violation of the self’ (Coker v. Georgia (1977) 433 U.S. 584, 597 [53 L.Ed.2d 982, 992, 97 S.Ct. 2861]), the ultimate affront to the dignity of the human spirit. As such, it is an offense against all humanity.
If we cannot fully expiate this evil, we can at least, within the bounds of contemporary morality, impose a just punishment to fit the crime. The Legislature has provided that any person who intentionally and…
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