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Criminal Law Keyed to Kadish
Garnett v. State
Citation:
632 A.2d 797 (1993)
ProfessorScott Caron
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Raymond Lennard Garnett was a 20-year-old man with an IQ of 52 who functioned at the intellectual level of an 11 or 12-year-old. He attended special education classes and could not pass the state’s functional tests required for high school graduation. In late 1990, Garnett was introduced to 13-year-old Erica Frazier. On February 28, 1991, Garnett approached Frazier’s house in the evening. Frazier invited him to climb through her bedroom window using a ladder. The two talked and later engaged in sexual intercourse. Garnett left early the next morning. Nine months later, Frazier gave birth to a baby, of which Garnett was the biological father. At trial, Garnett attempted to introduce evidence that Frazier and her friends had told him she was 16 years old, and that he believed this to be true. The trial court excluded this evidence as immaterial, ruling that statutory rape is a strict liability offense.
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