An 18-Year-Old Said She Was Raped While In Police Custody. The Officers Say She Consented. She thought it would be a simple case. She had no idea she lived in one of 35 states where officers can claim a detainee consented.

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[–]FormosaOolong 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Seriously, it's unfathomable. Common sense would have us believe this could never be possible.

It's one aspect of the insanity of a "judicial" system that has so many statutes, codes, laws, etc that it takes teams of lawyers and law libraries the size of entire rooms just to decode it. How is that fair? How is anyone who is not a millionaire supposed to have a chance?