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10-03-12, 09:23 PM #1
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CT Supreme Court overturns conviction for sexual assault of woman with intellect of 3-year-old who cannot talk
The state Supreme Court has thrown out the conviction of a Bridgeport man who was found guilty of sexually assaulting a severely handicapped woman.The woman, who was not identified in court, has severe cerebral palsy, has the intellectual functional equivalent of a 3-year-old and cannot verbally communicate, according to court documents.State Supreme Court Tosses Sex Assault Conviction | NBC ConnecticutThe ruling centers around the state proving that the victim was physically helpless at the time of the attack, which is defined as ‘‘unconscious or for any other reason is physically unable to communicate
unwillingness to an act."However, defense lawyers argued that there was evidence she could communicate by biting, kicking, screaming and gesturing.
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10-03-12, 10:44 PM #2
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The wrongness of this just pisses me off.
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10-04-12, 09:50 AM #3
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That is crap. In AL mental or physical handicap is specifically written into our code.
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10-04-12, 11:05 AM #4
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Same here.
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Have I mentioned how much I hate Lawyer World ?SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM-Ex-Sheriff Martin Howe to Will Kane in "High Noon"
"It's a great life. You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If your honest , your poor your whole life. And , In the end , you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star."
Far from being a handicap to command, compassion is the measure of it. For unless one values the lives of his soldiers and is tormented by their ordeals , he is unfit to command.
-General Omar Bradley, United States Army
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