State v. Hanson

OPINION

LANSING, Judge.

This appeal from conviction for fourth-degree sexual conduct challenges the district *602court’s jury instruction that the state was not required to prove coercion and also challenges the sufficiency of the evidence on use of authority to cause the complainant to submit. We affirm.

FACTS

A jury found Terrance Hanson guilty of one count of criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree for sexual contact with R.E., a seventeen-year-old female. Hanson owns Eagle Creek Stables where R.E. applied for work in spring 1991. R.E. told Hanson that she was sixteen at the time she applied…