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- From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (Bill Stewart +1-908-949-0705)
- Subject: Re: Retardation and Rape (was: Re: Mysogynist Bullshit)
- Organization: Mary Ellen Carter Salvage Crew
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:40:41 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: srm@world.std.com's message of Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:12:16 GMT
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- In article <C02ssH.C6A@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
-
- However, Glen Ridge is here in New Jersey, not New York.
- The age of consent is lower here, though I'm not sure if the victim
- was above or below that age, and the law takes into account the age of
- the sexual partner in age-of-consent issues as well.
- Don't know what it says about mental incapacity, but that's obviously been a
- major part of the testimony that's been in the papers.
- --
- # Pray for peace; Bill
- # Bill Stewart 1-908-949-0705 wcs@anchor.att.com AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ
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