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Haaretz now reports that the defendant was first charged with forcible sexual assault which left the complainant traumatized, bruised and bleeding. The complainant testified at trial, but facts related to her personal background and history emerged, which cast doubts on the chances of conviction. The prosecution considered the consequences of forcing her to take the stand again, and decided instead to amend the charges as part of a plea agreement with the defendant.
The story portrayed in the media was based on the amended version of the events which described consensual sex under false pretenses. The newspapers then pounced on the story of a man sentenced harshly for all the wrong reasons.
Rape by Deception
An Isreali judge has sentenced an Arab man to jail for pretending he was a Jew before having sex with a woman he met on the street. Read the full story here. I am no criminal lawyer, and no expert in Isreali law, but I wonder how this will play out in a Canadian court. Some questions come to min...
Or, how to hijack a thread in two easy steps.
LSAT instructor says what?
One of my friends is an LSAT instructor. On the topic of closed-book examinations in law, he asserts the following:"To those who say that closed-book examinations are a poor parallel to anything you might do in law, I present the following scenario: What if you are kidnapped, locked in a small ...
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