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To: BlackVeil
I do remember a case with details as you described. If it is the same one - it was in Britain, not America, and in the 1980s. The perps got away with it, because the judge ruled that they had a "reasonable presumption" that the victim was consenting.

I studied that case (or one just like it) in law school. As I recall (it has been a few years) an RAF Sergeant went into pub, chatted up a couple of RAF Arimen, and told them he and his wife were into kinky sex. Specifically she liked to act out rape fantasies and he liked to watch. If they cared to the Sergeant said (buying another round) they could accompany him home and have a go at his wife. She of course, he told them, would pretend she didn't know anything about it and beg them to stop...

I think the Sergeant was convicted, but the Law Lords over turned the airmen's conviction holding that given what they had been told they could have believed she was consenting and simply pretending to not consent.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

19 posted on 02/26/2003 3:11:43 PM PST by Pilsner
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To: Pilsner
I studied that case (or one just like it) in law school.

Yup -- I remember it, too --criminal law, mens rea chapter.

27 posted on 02/26/2003 4:59:41 PM PST by WL-law
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