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...events leading to the opening this week of one of the nation's most extraordinary sex-crime trials began with an encounter last June beside a fishing hole in Wisconsin's Menominee Park. Mark Peterson, 31, an Oshkosh grocery worker, wandered up to a group gathered on the bank and sat down beside a 26-year-old woman who called herself Franny. Over the next several minutes, as Peterson watched, her personality underwent several profound changes. Would you like to go dancing? he asked. Others who were present have since testified that they told Peterson the woman's true name...
...Peterson nonetheless called Franny two days later and asked her out. According to the woman's pretrial testimony, they drove to an Oshkosh coffee shop, where Franny told Peterson about Jennifer, another personality, whom she described as a "20-year-old female who likes to dance and have fun." When the couple got back into Peterson's car, he summoned Jennifer and asked her, "Can I love you?" She answered, "O.K." (Later Jennifer would say she thought this was an invitation to go dancing...
...Peterson stopped near a park, lowered the seat back and initiated sex. During intercourse, another personality, that of a six-year-old known as Emily, suddenly intruded. Peterson told Jennifer to tell Emily to keep their activities "a secret." Instead, Franny and Emily "told" Sarah, the predominant personality. Sarah subsequently phoned the police to report that she had been sexually assaulted...
...main issues before the Wisconsin court are whether Sarah was mentally ill at the time of the sexual act, and whether she was able to appraise Peterson's conduct. A third issue is whether Peterson knew of Sarah's condition; it is a crime in Wisconsin to engage in sexual intercourse with a person you believe to be mentally ill and who cannot assess your conduct...
Regardless of what type of offense Penn shows, Harvard will be sure to keep the pressure on the Quakers. Led by Gordian's 10 sacks, one short of Don Peterson's 1988 single-season Harvard record, the Crimson's swarming defense has dropped opposing signal-callers a team-record 44 times...