61.   Puccio has asked the judge in the rape case, Martin Nigro of Superior Court here, to delay the trial because of the new developments.

62.   Police in Massachusetts and New York said they would continue to look for any connection to Martinez in other unsolved rape cases.

63.   Rape case closed.

64.   She is very tough on complainants and screens cases carefully, said Vivian Berger, a former Manhattan prosecutor and an expert on evidence in rape cases.

65.   Sen. John Vratil, a Leawood Republican who presented the bill to the Senate, said the defense was used successfully in an earlier rape case in Sedgwick County.

66.   Smearing the victim with sexual innuendo, a favored approach in rape cases, is always a high-risk tactic.

67.   Social workers, judicial officials and medical examiners say that successful prosecution of rape cases is virtually impossible in this country.

68.   Subsequently an additional sexual assault charge, brought by a former altar boy, has been added to the rape case.

69.   Tatreau said the LAPD needs to improve the way investigative data on rape cases, including suspect-profile information, are shared by detectives from different divisions.

70.   Texas officials say prisons provide a tough setting in which to prosecute rape cases, the vast majority of which are homosexual assaults.