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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. |
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| | Sec. 8. 17-A MRSA §253, as corrected by RR 2003, c. 2, §25, is | amended to read: |
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| | 1. A person is guilty of gross sexual assault rape if that | person engages in a sexual act with another person and: |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| | 2. A person is guilty of gross sexual assault rape if that | person engages in a sexual act with another person and: |
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| 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; |
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| 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; |
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| 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; |
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| 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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