The defendant was charged with assault and sexual assault arising from incidents occurring between April 30 and May 7, 2017.
The defendant and complainant were in an on-again, off-again intimate relationship.
The defendant attended the complainant's residence unannounced and intoxicated, conducted surreptitious surveillance of the complainant, forced his way into her apartment, and engaged in a series of assaults and sexual assaults over several hours.
The complainant ultimately acquiesced to sexual intercourse after being subjected to persistent coercive conduct.
The defendant claimed the complainant consented or that he held an honest but mistaken belief in consent.
The court found the defendant guilty of all charges, determining that the complainant did not consent and that the defendant's conduct created a climate of coercion that vitiated any notion of true voluntary consent.
