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"When we consider this evidence in the light most favorable to sustaining the verdict, and in a manner that is consistent with the state’s theory of guilt at trial, we, like the Appellate Court, ‘are not persuaded that the state produced any credible evidence that the [victim] was either unconscious or so uncommunicative that she was physically incapable of manifesting to the defendant her lack of consent to sexual intercourse at the time of the alleged sexual assault.’
According to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN), lack of physical resistance is not evidence of consent , as “many victims make the good judgment that physical resistance would cause the attacker to become more violent.” RAINN also notes that lack of consent is implicit “if you were under the statutory age of consent, or if you had a mental defect” as the victim did in this case.
Anna Doroghazi, director of public policy and communication at Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services, worried that the Court’s interpretation of the law ignored these concerns: “By implying that the victim in this case should have bitten or kicked her assailant, this ruling effectively holds people with disabilities to a higher standard than the rest of the population when it comes to proving lack of consent in sexual assault cases. Failing to bite an assailant is not the same thing as consenting to sexual activity.” An amicus brief filed by the Connecticut advocates for disabled persons argued that this higher standard “discourag[ed] the prosecution of crimes against persons with disabilities” even though “persons with a disability had an age-adjusted rate of rape or sexual assault that was more than twice the rate for persons without a disability.”
החוק לא טוב. החוק רע. לשופטים יש מרחב. אני נכדה של שופט פדרלי (הפדרציה במקרה זה - ארה"ב) שהיה מדבר אתי בדיוק על זה - על מהו חוק, מה משמעותו, איך לשופט יש את היכולת לתת לחוק יבש משמעות. איך להרחיב, איך להעמיק, נתן דוגמאות וכו'.
ובבקשה טלטלטל, אם כל מה שאת יכולה לעשות זה לחזור על מה שכבר כתבת, אשמח אם לא תגיבי. מספיק טראומה עשו לי הידיעות על פסק הדין. מה גם שאת לא מחדשת דבר.
