People v. Gray CA4/2

FACTS

Defendant and his wife, L., were married for 25 years. She was the apartment

manager for the building in which they lived. On March 12, 2013, at approximately 9:

p.m., L., her son and daughter, J. and M., and her son C. and his girlfriend, Sabrina, were

watching television in her bedroom. Defendant asked L. to come downstairs to the

detached garage. Inside the garage, he locked the door so she could not leave.

Defendant first asked to receive “some love’n,” which L. thought meant hugging

and kissing. Instead, defendant insisted that L. perform oral sex on him. After hesitating,

she finally complied but he complained she was not doing it right and he compelled her

to watch a pornographic film for instruction. L. cried but she was afraid he would

become angry and slap her. He told her, “We could go all night with this.”

Meanwhile, J. asked Sabrina and C. not to leave before L. came back upstairs.

Sabrina and M. went to the garage to check on L. and heard her crying. C. came

downstairs and knocked on the garage door, saying he wanted to talk to L. Defendant

yelled they were having sex. When C. insisted on speaking with her, L. answered in a

“cracked voice.”…