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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Perhaps this ends sex before marriage.

But this law also gives wives the ability to put unwanted husbands in jail for married “rape”.


16 posted on 12/18/2014 7:37:00 AM PST by kidd (What we have now is the federal gruberment)
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To: kidd
But this law also gives wives the ability to put unwanted husbands in jail for married “rape”.

That's actually already the case.

Any woman, married or not, can accuse any man of rape. He will almost always be arrested and his name plastered across the local media.

She is of course shielded against exposure.

Such cases don't go to trial all that often. I've not been able to come up with a hard number, but I think roughly 10% of rape reports result in a conviction.

Another roughly 10% are proven to be false.

The rest remain in legal limbo, with the truth or falsity of the claim unable to be proven legally.

Rape is pretty much the only crime where we regularly convict someone on the unsupported testimony of another person. A person who in many cases has reason to hate the accused regardless of whether rape occurred or not.

Rape is also the only crime where conviction or acquittal is often based simply on who tells a more believable story. Which is sometimes "who is the better liar?"

In many if not most date-rape accusations I remain confused about how it is even theoretically possible to determine "guilt beyond a reasonable doubt."

25 posted on 12/18/2014 7:46:41 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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