In re R.S. CA2/4
In a petition filed under Welfare and Institutions Code section 602, minor R.S. was alleged to have committed forcible rape (Pen. Code, § 261, subd. (a)(2)) and forcible oral copulationof Jeanette A. The court heard testimony from several witnesses: Jeanette, the deputy sheriff who found her immediately after the incident (Deputy Marinelli) and other deputies who participated in detaining R.S. and bringing him to Jeanette for a field show-up; forensic nurses who examined Jeanette and R.S. within hours after the incident; several people who lived across the street from the location of the incident; a friend of R.S.; and R.S. himself. The juvenile court concluded that the case came down to the testimony of Jeanette, R.S., and, to some extent, Deputy Marinelli. The court found Jeanette (who testified that the sexual encounter was forcible and not consensual) to be credible, and R.S.
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