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but it may well have fallen into the category of gray area. He believed that she wanted to sleep with him. She may have been ambivalent or sending mixed signals (though I doubt it). It was a close case and Tyson was entitled to have his defense presented vigorously

I teach the law of rape as an example of a cutting-edge subject that poses a sharp conflict between the rights of defendants and their accusers. As usual

a number of highly publicized rape accusations turned out to be false. A nineteen-year-old girl woman from Lincolnshire accused her former boyfriend of raping her after she spent the night with a different man. A jilted nurse falsely accused her former lover of beating her and...

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

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

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 man. As experienced defense attorneys

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. If she had recently used cocaine

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 such a case recently

on the ground that allowing the defense to have access to the complainant’s psychiatric records would discourage complainants from coming forward. The court was sensitive to this concern and said the following:

most particularly whether they should be televised. (I think they should and have strongly advocated that view in debates

often deep trouble. Their celebrity is no longer a shield protecting them from the ordinary tribulations that befall most people on a daily basis. When they come to me

starting well before they were rich and famous. People often have a hard time changing old habits. I know that no matter how much money I now have

while my wife and I discussed health care policy with Hillary. The President told a joke that wasn’t particularly funny. My family has very high standards of humor

as well as of other Christian denominations. He lights the national Christmas tree and this year also lit Hanukkah candles in the White House.

but he was aware of only two of them. He knew that he could litigate and try to win – as he ended up doing. He also knew that he could try to settle the case