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Bashaw (D) was tried and convicted of first-degree rape and attempted rape. D appealed on grounds that the trial court did not give an instruction to the jury such that rape is a charge that is easily made and once made difficult to defend against even if the person accused is innocent... and therefore the law requires that you examine the testimony of the female person named in the Information with caution...

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