This is all sorts of fucked up. I'm officially crossing Maryland off the places I ever want to live and now I need to find out the rest of these states that support this law.
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So, 5-10 seconds of delay and the guy's getting charged with first-degree rape and going to jail for 15 years! I mean, I'm all about no means no but how do you determine the delay! Did she have a stop watch? Was she going "One Miss... two miss.. three miss..." (too tired to type the full state).
Also, does this new expanded ruling exclude married couples?? This would be fantastic in terms of settling divorces. There is so much room for abuse with this, it isn't even funny.
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| The state's highest court ruled yesterday that a man can be charged with rape if he ignores a woman's calls to stop - even if she had previously consented to sex. With this expansion of the legal definition of rape, Maryland joins seven other states whose courts have determined that a woman can revoke her consent after intercourse begins |
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| The victim testified in Montgomery County court that she agreed to sex "as long as he stops when I tell him to." As he began, she told him to stop because he was hurting her, but he kept going for five or 10 seconds, she said. |
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| Wilson pleaded guilty to second-degree rape and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Baby denied any wrongdoing but was convicted of first-degree rape and other crimes and sentenced to 15 years in prison, with all but five suspended. Mel Feit, director of the National Center for Men, based in Long Island, N.Y., said the facts of Baby's case have been lost in the larger argument about a woman's right to say no. "The courts got it wrong then, and they are getting it wrong now," said Feit, who has followed the Maryland case. "There is no way that anyone is ever going to convince me that a five-second delay is first-degree rape." |
Also, does this new expanded ruling exclude married couples?? This would be fantastic in terms of settling divorces. There is so much room for abuse with this, it isn't even funny.






