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- From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: 4 Q's: Deadly Self-Defense Against Rape
- Message-ID: <13224@optilink.UUCP>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 19:26:51 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.193943.4958@rotag.mi.org> <1992Nov10.210555.17644@chpc.org> <1992Nov13.200443.14525@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Nov13.200443.14525@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, dsc@gemini.tmc.edu (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892) writes:
- # In regard to attempted rape isn't a ddiscusion of the risk of AIDS going off
- # on a tangent? An important tangent to be sure, but still not at the heart
- # of the issue.
- #
- # Isn't deadly assault, though defined somewhat differently in different states,
- # always defined as something tho the effect of: assault which is likely to
- # cause death or grievous injury. Don't all states permit a victim to use
- # deadly force to repell an deadly attack.
-
- I have seen the claim made (and I don't know if it is true or not)
- that in New Jersey, you are required to leave your residence rather
- than use deadly force against an attacker. Only when you have no
- possible escape can deadly force be used. Can in anyone in Nazi
- Jersey confirm this by checking your state's criminal code?
-
- # Rape is grevious injury. Hence, is not deadly force directed against an
- # attacker while htey are attempting rape permitted throughout the US?
-
- It should be, but there are a lot of people in America (liberals)
- who seem to think that rape is preferable to dead rapists.
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- Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
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