Opinion ID: 2062958
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: jeannette's testimony

Text: She is almost twenty-four years old but was twenty-three at the time of the rape, six months earlier. She was married to her present husband, Randy, when she was sixteen, at which time she was five months pregnant by him. She has since had three more children by him. They have never been separated except for a year that he had spent in jail upon a conviction for theft. When the defendant arrived between 9:00 and 9:30 that evening, the children were asleep upstairs. The family dog, a five year old Doberman, was either in the living room or the downstairs bedroom. Jeannette invited him in and he sat down by the door. He asked for a beer, and she got one for him from the kitchen. He said that he had been at his sister's house eating pizza and that he had also had a couple of hits of acid. After going to the bathroom, the defendant called for help. Jeannette asked if he was decent and then entered. She found him on his back in the tub. She took ahold of his arm, and he got out. Then he grabbed her around the waist and asked if she fooled around, which she took to mean to go out with men other than her husband. She said that she did not, and he replied that was not what he heard. She then said that she did not care what he heard and that he should leave. They then went through the dining room and into the connecting living room. Defendant was then acting differently than he had in the afternoon. He acted excited. Jeannette told him how to get to Watkins, where her husband was, and he said that he would leave after he smoked a cigarette. He asked for a light for his cigarette, but her Bic lighter was not working properly, and she told him that he could light his cigarette from the kitchen stove. Defendant went through the dining room into the connecting kitchen, and Jeannette heard him operating the stove control buttons and then heard the silverware drawer, in which she kept a small butcher knife, being opened. She was still trying to ignite the lighter, and it worked, so she went into the kitchen and lit his cigarette. Then she walked to the stove to turn it off, and when she turned around, the defendant was standing in the doorway to the dining room and had the knife in his hand. She told him to put the knife away, but he said No and for her to remove her clothes. Jeannette told him no and to get the hell out. She tried to go past him, but he pushed her back and held the knife at her stomach. He then ordered her to remove her clothing and she said no and tried to pass him. This time he pushed her against the back door and placed the knife at her throat and told her that he was tired of messing around and to take my clothes off or he was going to use it. Jeannette screamed for the dog but she did not come. She hollered again, but the dog did not come. Neither were the children awakened. Defendant said that if the dog came he would cut its throat, so she did not call it anymore. She pleaded with him to leave and said that if he did she would not tell anybody. He put the knife against her throat and pushed on it until it hurt her, so she tried to kick him in the groin with her knee, but he blocked the attempt. Then she pushed him away and attempted to go out the back door, but as she was removing the security chain, he grabbed her arm from behind her back and again demanded that she remove her clothing. Jeannette was wearing denim slacks, a long sleeved turtle neck sweater, underpants and a brassiere. She removed the slacks and underpants; and with the knife in one hand while holding her arm behind her back with the other, Defendant threw her to the floor. She fell pretty hard onto her rear and he started to remove his clothes. Jeannette continued to resist and tried to get up, but Defendant removed his pants and got on top of her but he did not have an erection at that time. She told him that her back was hurting, thinking that she could escape if she could get up. But with the knife at her throat and her arm held behind her back, Defendant led her into the bedroom. I tried to run for the door but every time that I did, he grabbed my arm harder and put the knife closer. When Defendant got Jeannette into the bedroom, he was clad only in his shirt and she in her turtle neck sweater and brassiere. He removed his shirt, and then without letting go of the knife, he removed her sweater and brassiere. She again pleaded to be left alone and promised that she would not tell anybody, but he said no that he knew Randy would kill him anyhow so he might as well have his fun. Defendant then made Jeannette sit on the bed and took her head and forced her to place her mouth upon his penis. She started to bite him, and he let her up. He still did not have an erection. Then he threw her upon the bed and performed cunnilingus upon her, and she started screaming and moving, so he just got on top of me. She continued to resist physically and verbally but he had the knife in his hand throughout the episode and runs the knife up to my side and tells me to hold still and I keep moving. I keep trying to get away from him, but I can't. After Defendant penetrated her and had an orgasm, he raised his body from hers, and Jeannette grabbed a blanket and draped it around her. With knife still in hand, he made me follow him to the kitchen to get his clothes because he was afraid I would kill him. (Emphasis added). He dressed in the kitchen and then, he made me follow him to the front door and he asked me again if I hated him. (Emphasis added). The defendant exited through the front door, and Jeannette locked it. He still had the knife with him. After he got outside and she got the door locked, Randy and his friends arrived in his friends' automobile and stopped behind the family automobile which was parked in front of the house. Defendant was standing by our car. Next, the door of the newly arrived vehicle opened and Jeannette saw that it was her husband. Then, she looked and saw the defendant throw the knife at the south side of the house and walk to his automobile and Randy stepping out of his friends' automobile. She began screaming for him and beating upon the door. When he arrived at the door, she at first could not get it unlocked, but then she did. Randy grabbed her and shook her, and she told him that she had been raped. On cross-examination, in response to counsel's inquiry as to what her husband's attitude would be with regard to a voluntary act of extra-marital sexual intercourse by her, Jeannette responded that he would have to ask her husband but acknowledged that she thought that he would object to it and that it could ruin her marriage.