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- From: srm@world.std.com (Stevens R Miller)
- Subject: Re: Retardation and Rape (was: Re: Mysogynist Bullshit)
- Message-ID: <C02ssH.C6A@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec27.183632.9369@zooid.guild.org> <Bzxpq3.Fw7@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec27.235337.25000@panix.com> <Bzy3Gv.7vH@world.std.com> <1992Dec29.021854.28426@panix.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:12:16 GMT
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- lkk@panix.com (Larry Kolodney) writes:
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- >In <Bzy3Gv.7vH@world.std.com> srm@world.std.com (Stevens R Miller) writes:
-
- >>Similarly, a person who is mentally defective
- >>(defined: "...suffers from a mental disease or defect which renders
- >>him incapable of appraising the nature of his conduct" PL 130) also
- >>cannot legally give consent.
-
- >But if the Glen Ridge defendants were convicted SOLELY on the basis
- >that the victim was retarded, they would only be guilty of statutory
- >rape, and would (I suspect) face a significantly lighter sentence.
- >You'd have to show actual lack of consent for a regular rape charge to
- >stick.
-
- Incorrect. PL 130.05(3)(b) makes mental incapacity the legal
- equivalent of actual lack of consent. From that point on, the
- charge of rape is treated identically with any other. (As it should
- be, IMHO).
- >--
- >larry kolodney:(lkk@panix.com)
- >_(*#&)#*&%)@(*^%_!*&%^!)*+!*&$+!?&%+!*&^_)*%)*&^%#+&
- >The past is not dead, it's not even past. - Wm. Faulkner
- --
- Stevens R. Miller J.D.
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