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Sep 18, 2013 criminal-law rape intimidation revised-penal-code supreme-court people-vs-frias

Rape Conviction Upheld: Intimidation Overcomes Lack of Physical Resistance

Philippine Supreme Court rules that intimidation, not physical resistance, is key in rape cases, upholding a conviction based on a knife threat.