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Court Frees Rapist, Rules Only Married Women Protected by Law
Calif. Court Finds Single Woman Not Protected By Rape Law - ABC News
How in the hell is the law still around?
A California appeals court overturned the rape conviction of a man accused of pretending to be a woman's boyfriend when he snuck into her bedroom and had sex with her, concluding that the law doesn't protect unmarried women in such cases.
Citing an obscure state law from 1872, the panel ruled that an impersonator who tricks someone into having sex with him can only be found guilty of rape if he is pretending to be a married woman's husband.
"Has the man committed rape? Because of historical anomalies in the law and the statutory definition of rape, the answer is no, even though, if the woman had been married and the man had impersonated her husband, the answer would be yes," Judge Thomas L. Willhite Jr. wrote in the court's decision.
Calif. Court Finds Single Woman Not Protected By Rape Law - ABC News
How in the hell is the law still around?