[harpseal]

I note the following facts. The girl did not say stop. The girl did not state she was fighting him what she talked about was going home. Her lack of clarity alone should be enough to be certain there was reasonable doubt the young man raped her. We are talking about two young people who were engaging in what both said was consensual sex. I also question how long it took him to stop. who had the stop watch to time it at a minute and a half or was it just guess.

If it was a guess and not the result of looking at a watch even then I would not necessarily call it rape.

Five minutes or even three minutes might constitute assault at that point but once the act is started it can not be considered rape unless there is an element of force in continuing and there was no such fact noted by the appeals court.

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[Born in a Rage]

Her lack of clarity alone should be enough to be certain there was reasonable doubt the young man raped her.

Well, harpseal....I would say that if this girl wasn't 'really' raped and just wanted to be a "b!tch" - as someone else on the thread commented earlier....that perhaps she could have just lied and said she said the word "stop", instead of putting herself through the type of scrutiny that has been brought up on this thread over a single word. If she was lying about the whole idea that she was raped; I doubt if lying over the fact if she said a particular word or not would not have been an issue to her.