What is the effect of sedation on sexual assault allegations?

At the outset of his reasons on this issue, the trial judge described several subjects about which there was no serious dispute: i. patients under conscious sedation have varying levels of consciousness during surgery, including “aware but docile and tranquil” and “asleep but arousable”; ii. creating amnesia is not the principal aim of sedation, but is a desirable side effect; iii. complete amnesia is uncommon for patients under conscious sedation; iv. the drugs and dosages administered by the appellant are commonly used in developed nations around the world and are well within established norms; and v. no witness had ever heard of a case of multiple allegations of sexual assault on patients administered the level of drugs administered here.