who engages in an act of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor who is under 16 years of age is guilty of either a misdemeanor or a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years.
In other words, among the range of conduct criminalized by § 261.5(d), would be consensual intercourse between a 21-year-old (possibly a college sophomore) and a minor who is 15 years, 11 months (possibly a high school junior). That relationship may very well have begun when the older of the two was a high school senior and the younger a high school freshman and have continued monogamously without intercourse for two to three years beforeand logging operations." On the first day he worked with the other men "snaking" logs to a "skidway," a place where logs were rolled up skids onto the trucks. On the second day he met his death.
When he reported for work that morning, he first helped in the loading of the logs on the trucks. When the logs were loaded and the trucks left, one of them got stuck on the road. Defendant Rich went to help get it out. But before doing so, he told Steelman and another employee, Miller, to go down the road and cut another "skidway." He did not tell them where to cut the "skidway," but left it to them to find and select a suitable place for it.
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