Opinion ID: 1711295
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The rape-shield statute provides:

Text: Evidence of specific instances of the victim's sexual conduct, opinion evidence of the victim's sexual conduct, and reputation evidence of the victim's sexual conduct shall not be admitted under sections 520b to 520g unless and only to the extent that the judge finds that the following proposed evidence is material to a fact at issue in the case and that its inflammatory or prejudicial nature does not outweigh its probative value: (a) Evidence of the victim's past sexual conduct with the actor. (b) Evidence of specific instances of sexual activity showing the source or origin of semen, pregnancy, or disease. [M.C.L. § 750.520j(1); M.S.A. § 28.788(10)(1) (emphasis added).] The defendant seeks to introduce evidence of both prior and subsequent consensual sexual relations with the complainant. Such evidence clearly falls within the statute's general exclusionary rule. It bars, with two narrow exceptions, evidence of all sexual activity by the complainant not incident to the alleged rape. People v. Stull, 127 Mich.App. 14, 17, 338 N.W.2d 403 (1983) (emphasis in original). [4] We turn first to the proposed evidence of subsequent consensual sexual relations. The defendant contends that this falls within the statutory exception for [e]vidence of the victim's past sexual conduct with the actor.