Case Name: STATE of Maine v. William McGOULDRICK
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1987-02-26
Citations: 521 A.2d 312
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE of Maine v. William McGOULDRICK.
Judges: Before NICHOLS, ROBERTS, WATHEN, GLASSMAN, SCOLNIK and CLIFFORD, JJ.
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 521
Pages: 312–312

Head Matter:
STATE of Maine v. William McGOULDRICK.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.
Argued Sept. 17, 1986.
Decided Feb. 26, 1987.
John D. McElwee, Dist. Atty., Neale T. Adams (orally), Asst. Dist. Atty., Caribou, for plaintiff.
Stevens, Engels, Bishop & Sprague, Jonathan W. Sprague (orally), Presque Isle, for defendant.
Before NICHOLS, ROBERTS, WATHEN, GLASSMAN, SCOLNIK and CLIFFORD, JJ.

Opinion:
NICHOLS, Justice.
The Defendant, William McGouldrick, appeals from the judgment of conviction entered in Superior Court (Aroostook County) after a jury had on January 27, 1986, found him guilty on three counts of gross sexual misconduct, all involving a step-granddaughter. The issue on appeal is whether in each instance there was sufficient evidence that the 14-year-old prosecutrix submitted as a result of compulsion by the 60-year-old Defendant.
Although the record before us fails to support a finding of compulsion as to Counts II and III, there was evidence adduced on Count I upon which a jury could rationally conclude that the prosecutrix submitted to the Defendant as a result of "physical force, a threat of physical force or a combination thereof [that rendered her] unable to physically repel the [Defendant]." 17-A M.R.S.A. § 251(1)(E) (1983).
The entry is:
Judgment on Count I affirmed.
Judgment on Counts II and III vacated; remanded for entry of judgment of acquittal on Counts II and III.
All concurring.