Opinion ID: 844200
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: Cathy D.

Text: In 1983, while living in St. Louis, defendant raped the girlfriend of an acquaintance. Cathy D. testified that on the night in question, she and her boyfriend, Harvey Temple, encountered defendant at a bar. Defendant was with another woman and the two couples decided to go to a restaurant for breakfast and then to defendant‘s residence. At some point the other woman left and Temple‘s wife arrived at the residence with their daughter. Temple left to drive his family home, and Cathy D. agreed to wait for him to return. 28 Defendant, who had been drinking, joined Cathy D. in the living room and told her that, in order to be alone with her, he had called Temple‘s wife. When Cathy D. rejected defendant‘s advances, he forcibly pulled her into the bedroom and threw her down on the bed, holding her arms down with one hand and unfastening and pulling down her pants with his other hand. Cathy D. struggled to get away from defendant, yelling at him to ―let me go‖ and to ―stop,‖ but he told her to ―shut up,‖ pulled her underwear down, and raped her. Afterward, defendant said words to the effect of ―that was good for me, was it for you?‖ Cathy D. had to unlock the door to get out of the bedroom. As she was leaving defendant‘s residence, Temple called and Cathy D. told him to pick her up at a nearby parking lot. She told Temple what had happened but did not tell her family and did not report the incident to police. Cathy D. next saw defendant approximately eight months later when she and Temple were at a bar. When defendant saw Temple, he immediately left the bar, and Cathy D. never saw defendant again after that encounter.