Question juridique clé
Whether the appellate court assessed the evidence arbitrarily and violated the presumption of innocence/in dubio pro reo in affirming the rape conviction
Solution extraite
The complaint failed: the appellate court’s differentiated assessment of the testimony was not arbitrary, and no serious, insurmountable doubt was shown.
Motifs extraits
The Court held that mere appellate criticism of witness credibility was insufficient. The appellate court had plausibly rejected the alleged preliminaries as implausible while finding the core account of vaginal intercourse credible; the challenge amounted largely to inadmissible appellatory criticism.