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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Brown finds that defendant was properly convicted of third degree rape. The victim was properly allowed to testify about her speculation that she had been drugged by defendant despite the results of her toxicology report showing that there were no date rape drugs in her system. The record shows that the jury was informed that the victim had no formal education in toxicology and that the basis of her knowledge was from television. Further, the jury was clearly aware that the toxicology results did not show the presence of a date rape drug. Also, an expert was properly allowed to testify as to how much alcohol the victim had in her system at the time the rape occurred because the expert was qualified as an expert in toxicological analysis, and there was sufficient evidence to support that there was a ten-hour window between the victim's last drink and the time she submitted to a forensic exam. Affirmed.