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From: garry@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Garry Wiegand)
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Subject: Re: prostitution and rape - legal suggestion (Re: A clear case of rape?
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Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 23:46:16 EDT
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In a recent article rb@ccird2.UUCP (Rex Ballard) wrote:
>Dale Tooley, once district attorney of Denver Colorado, recalled an actual
>case where a woman was tied up, sexually assaulted, beaten with a chain,
>and hung by her legs out a third story window, yet the charges against
>the perpetrator were dismissed, because she admitted to him prior to the
>assault, and to the court during the trial, that she was willing to have
>sex with him.  Because he had paid for several drinks beforehand, it was
>considered consent and prostitution.

If this is really the essence of the case, I'd vote for pouring drinks
over the judge/DA/state legislature, beating 'em with a chain, and
hanging 'em upside-down out of a third story-window. Till the blood gets 
to their heads. If they have heads.

garry wiegand   (garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu)