P. v. Harris CA2/8
Defendant convinced his victim, a recovering methamphetamine addict, to come stay with him, by offering her drugs. Once he had her in his apartment, defendant embarked on a course of conduct that included repeated rapes and forced oral copulation, and once invited three other men to rape her, which they did. He kept her compliant by brutally beating her, and giving her methamphetamine, even when she wanted to stop taking it. After she had been captive for two months, Defendant used his victim’s mobile phone to call her mother, telling the woman she would never see her daughter again. The victim’s mother hired an investigator, who tracked defendant from his phone calls. The police discovered the victim, weak and badly injured, in defendant’s apartment. Defendant was convicted of torture, rape, rape in concert, and forcible oral copulation, with multiple circumstances justifying increased sentencing found to be true. Defendant appeals.
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