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1. A person is guilty of felony murder if acting alone or with
one or more other persons in the commission of, or an attempt to
commit, or immediate flight after committing or attempting to
commit, murder, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, arson, gross sexual
assault rape, or escape, the person or another participant in fact
causes the death of a human being, and the death is a reasonably
foreseeable consequence of such commission, attempt or flight.

 
Sec. 8. 17-A MRSA §253, as corrected by RR 2003, c. 2, §25, is
amended to read:

 
§253. Rape

 
1. A person is guilty of gross sexual assault rape if that
person engages in a sexual act with another person and:

 
A. The other person submits as a result of compulsion, as
defined in section 251, subsection 1, paragraph E.
Violation of this paragraph is a Class A crime; or

 
B. The other person, not the actor's spouse, has not in
fact attained the age of 14 years. Violation of this
paragraph is a Class A crime.

 
2. A person is guilty of gross sexual assault rape if that
person engages in a sexual act with another person and:

 
A. The actor has substantially impaired the other person's
power to appraise or control the other person's sexual acts
by administering or employing drugs, intoxicants or other
similar means. Violation of this paragraph is a Class B
crime;

 
B. The actor compels or induces the other person to engage
in the sexual act by any threat. Violation of this
paragraph is a Class B crime;

 
C. The other person suffers from mental disability that is
reasonably apparent or known to the actor, and which in fact
renders the other person substantially incapable of
appraising the nature of the contact involved or of
understanding that the person has the right to deny or
withdraw consent. Violation of this paragraph is a Class B
crime;

 
D. The other person is unconscious or otherwise physically
incapable of resisting and has not consented to the sexual
act. Violation of this paragraph is a Class B crime;


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