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Require all states to update their legal definitions of rape to those recently passed by New York

Created by J.D. on February 25, 2013

The case of Julio Morales and Jane Doe in LA, CA was immensely frustrating since the system worked correctly at first, and then he was released because an 1872 law did not classify forcible sexual contact by deceiving an unconscious victim a crime unless the perpetrator specifically imitated the victim's husband to gain his/her trust. The law requires all victims to be married for the crime to be classified as rape. New York just passed a new law saying that all unwanted sexual contact is rape. It seems simple, unmistakable, and leaves no room for offenders to be acquitted. Colorado has the same law as California, and other states may as well. The language of the New York law seems simple enough to become a federal requirement for all states to follow here in the 21st century.

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