SAVE Services has published an excellent, highly informative article concerning the "state of the art" of rape prosecution in the USA. The article summarizes, in a drily factualistic manner, what you'll be facing if (heaven forbid!) you ever get accused of rape in this country. I am grateful to SAVE for sharing such information, but is this the sort of thing which earned them a place on the Southern Poverty Law Center hate-watch list?
The SAVE article is titled How Rape Laws Remove the Presumption of Innocence, and you may read it here:
www.saveservices.org/2012/08/how-rape-laws-remove-the-presumption-of-innocence/
Point of special interest: the article informs us that in the state of Washington (where I live), presumption of innocence does not exist for the defendant in a rape trial. That is, that the burden of proof is on the defendant to show that no rape occurred. And that is why I, if I were called to rape jury duty in this state, would not vote for conviction under any circumstance.
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