After following some girls around in public, grabbing them, and touching their genitals and breasts while they struggled to get away, Bryant was arrested for unlawful sexual contact. Because he accomplished his crime by using force, it's a felony. He was convicted, and he appealed. His argument was that the evidence didn't show that he used force to cause his victims to submit to sexual contact.
The court held that the sexual contact in this case (where the victims were struggling to get away) was in itself a use of force, and that the statute doesn't require an extra use of force beyond that. Bryant's conviction was upheld.
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