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To: Tax-chick
The article says "sex that started as consensual but ended as rape." That seems a little hard to prove, to me ...

When the alleged perpetrator is a man, the jury is typically expected to believe the victim in cases of date rape, and men are convicted based on such statements quite regularly. It'll be interesting to see if the same standard applies here.

29 posted on 01/19/2005 8:48:56 AM PST by general_re (How come so many of the VKs have been here six months or less?)
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To: general_re

If I were a juror, I'd have a hard time convicting a man or a woman of rape on no evidence other than, "But then I changed my mind ..."


32 posted on 01/19/2005 8:51:29 AM PST by Tax-chick ( The old woman who lives in the 15-passenger van.)
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To: general_re
It'll be interesting to see if the same standard applies here.

Interesting, too, because rape implies sodomy of some sort, and sodomy---if I remember correctly---must involve penetration. So with this lot, someone was overly aggressive in giving the "gooseneck" here, or someone got a dose of cold feet when the lace-up Jeff Stryker 14-incher came out of the treasure drawer . . .

95 posted on 01/19/2005 12:46:03 PM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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