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	[quote name="Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS)"][quote name="Mischief Maker"]Here's a puzzler from my own law school experience. A Madison Cop catches a girl and her boyfriend skinny dipping in the lake. The cop tells the naked girl that if she has sex with him, he won't charge them. Girl has sex with the cop. Courts convict the cop of rape. [/quote] More or less the same situation as came up in the case of <i>Mary M. v. City of Los Angeles</i>, 54 Cal. 3d 202; 814 P.2d 1341; 285 Cal. Rptr. 99, (1991). Cop stops a woman for a traffic offense, and says she can go to jail and be booked or let him screw her. So he more-or-less forces her to do so. The Court had this to say: [quote name="Supreme Court of California"]"By its very nature, rape displays a ‘total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy' of the victim; ‘[s]hort of homicide, [it is] the "ultimate violation of self."' <i>Coker v. Georgia</i> 433 U.S. 584, 597, 603 (1977) [53 L.Ed.2d 982, 996, 97 S.Ct. 2861] Along with other forms of sexual assault, it belongs to that class of indignities against the person that cannot ever be fully righted, and that diminishes all humanity." [/quote]---- Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) "The lessons of history teach us - if they teach us anything - that no one learns the lessons that history teaches us."[/quote]