The former partner's testimony allowed prosecutors to present two independent acts that each, on their own, could lead to a conviction of first-degree sexual assault, the Supreme Court ruled. Pickering said it will add to the "funnel of attrition" for sexual assault survivors seeking justice. The Supreme Court narrowly agreed. That the Supreme Court would overturn that conviction was "perplexing, both logically and doctrinally," Moore wrote. Benjamin Butler, a managing attorney with the Minnesota Appellate Public Defender's Office, represented Keyes before the Supreme Court.