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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: charges of rape, and good points
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Date: Thu, 30-May-85 19:53:57 EDT
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From: regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard), Message-ID: <446@ttidcc.UUCP>:
>(before you flame me for that one, I admit there are abuses to the charge
>of rape.  I ask you if that's what we are really talking about.)

No.

>Actually, there aren't a whole lot of rape accusations that hinge on anything
>so hard to prove as "state of mind".  That is often offered as a defense,
>but the cases that go to court are usually pretty clear.  Attorneys don't
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>like to take cases in that are utterly ambiguous -- and hearings prior to
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>the trial sort the wheat from the chaff.
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*That's* what we're talking about.  How many rapes are reported, how many
rapist are *known* yet are never even brought to trial, let alone convicted,
because of how difficult it is to *prove* that it was against her will?  I
don't know for sure, but I'd be willing to bet it's a *lot*.

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