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if a person makes a reasonable mistake of fact which leads to the commission of a crime

he could have received a sentence of 25 years for each separate massage. This could have resulted in life imprisonment. We probably could have won the case had we decided to litigate

which sometimes ended happily. The young women were paid for the services they rendered

had a home in a country where the age of consent was fourteen

since a large percentage of teenagers become sexually active at lower ages. Setting the age of consent higher than the norm accords prosecutors enormous discretion to pick and choose whom to prosecute among the many violators. I worked on s...

I had come across scientific information that established that the past use of cocaine could be determined by a test of the hair. Indeed

and there was some forensic evidence—the cocaine in her urine—to corroborate her suspicions. But the value of the forensic evidence depended entirely on whether she was telling truth about not having used cocaine prior to the alleged rape.....

to rape her. The wired conversation consists mostly of the accountant bantering and joking with the secretary while trying to persuade her to continue to have a relationship with him. She repeatedly asked him whether he had given her cocain...

he sensed that something was amiss. After pressing her

she offers no resistance and appears to consent? The answer is yes. Under the law

and my colleague persuaded the police not to press charges against the young man. I do not know how the engagement worked out

who persisted in his description of the sexual encounter as rape. His fiancé called my colleague and asked her to advise him. She sought my assistance. We went to the police station where we observed the police interrogation of the young ma...

the case against DSK was far stronger than the case against Mike Tyson

many of the students concluded that the D.A. acted harshly in dismissing the case. Most believed that this was a case in which both the woman and the man had lied

I am confident that you will have no reasonable doubt that the oral sex in this case was not consensual.

when he was examined by doctors for bruises. Look at that photograph and imagine what the alleged victim in this case saw

I want you to accept the fact that the alleged victim has told many lies in the past and can’t be completely trusted. In other words

and in their briefs and in their opining statements that the oral sex was entirely consensual.

I decided to role-play the prosecutor’s closing argument. Here is what I said:

even when a rape has occurred. A cleaning woman in a fancy New York hotel accused Dominic Strauss-Kahn—then the head of the World Bank—of forcing her to have oral sex with him. His lawyers first denied that there had been any encounter