Commonwealth v. Richter

*509 OPINION

CASTILLE, Justice.

We granted allocatur in this case to address whether a court can properly admit evidence in a rape trial of the defendant’s past sexual assaults against the victim to explain the victim’s failure to resist and to establish that the intercourse occurred through forcible compulsion or the threat of forcible compulsion. For the reasons expressed herein, we affirm the Superi- or Court.

On October 27, 1994, a jury found appellant guilty of the rape,1 indecent assault,2 and unlawful restraint3 of his ex-wife. Appellant was sentenced to consecutive prison terms of six to…