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To: Gordongekko909
"For those of you who don't know, a Romeo and Juliet exception is a clause usually written into statutory rape laws that basicallys says that if the perp and the victim are sufficiently close in age, then it's not statutory rape."

Not up here in MN and WI. They'll drag you out of the wedding chapel to convict you of a felony, and knock over the protesting parents on the way out.

150 posted on 01/26/2006 12:13:35 AM PST by spunkets
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To: spunkets

No, Minnesota's got one. First Degree Criminal Sexual Misconduct has an exception of forty-eight months. I know, four years. But that's how the statute is written. Of course, that could just bump it down to a lesser offense; I didn't look that closely.


203 posted on 01/26/2006 12:44:49 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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