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THE FELONY COMPLAINT CHARGED DEFENDANT WITH RAPE FIRST (FORCIBLE COMPULSION); THE SUPERIOR COURT INFORMATION (SCI) CHARGED RAPE THIRD (LACK OF CONSENT); BECAUSE RAPE THIRD AS CHARGED IN THE SCI WAS NOT A LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE OF RAPE FIRST AS CHARGED IN THE FELONY COMPLAINT, THE WAIVER OF INDICTMENT AND SCI WERE JURISDICTIONALLY DEFECTIVE (THIRD DEPT). ​

The Third Department, reversing defendant’s conviction by plea to a superior court information (SCI), determined the SCI did not charge the felony charged in the felony complaint (rape first) or a lesser included offense rendering the waiver of indictment and SCI jurisdictionally defective. The SCI charged rape third based upon lack of consent:

Although we acknowledge that “it is unnecessary to forcibly compel another to engage in sexual acts unless that person is an unwilling participant” … , it is nevertheless theoretically possible for one to use physical force to compel a victim to have sexual intercourse where the victim did not clearly express nonconsent. … [O]ne who commits the greater crime of rape in the first degree by forcible compulsion through physical force does not, by the same conduct, necessarily commit the lesser offense of rape in the third degree in which the victim expressly communicated his or her non-consent … . Consequently, rape in the third degree as charged in the SCI to which defendant pleaded guilty is not a lesser included offense of rape in the first degree as charged in the felony complaint … . People v Odu, 2022 NY Slip Op 07266, Third Dept 12-22-22

Practice Point: Here the felony complaint charged rape first (forcible compulsion) and the superior court information (SCI) charged rape third (lack of consent). Therefore the offense charged in the SCI was not a lesser included offense of the offense charged in the felony complaint, rendering the waiver of indictment and SCI jurisdictionally defective.

 

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