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Thirty U.S. states have age gap laws which make sexual activity legal if the ages of both participants are close to one another, [113] and these laws are often referred to as "Romeo and Juliet laws". [108] Other states have measures which reduce penalties if the two parties are close in age, and others provide an affirmative defense if the two ...
In the State v. Limon case, Kansas's Romeo and Juliet law was found to be unconstitutional because it excluded same-sex sexual conduct. Some countries other than the United States also have Romeo and Juliet laws. Ireland's 2006 law has been contested because it treats girls differently from boys. [64] [65]
In a number of U.S. states, the age of consent can drop to as low as 13, although this has associated specifications, usually regarding the age of those engaging in sexual acts not surpassing a specific age difference (known in the U.S. as "Romeo and Juliet laws" and elsewhere as close-in-age exceptions [2]).
For example, in the US state of Kansas, if someone 18 or older has sex with a minor no more than four years younger, a Romeo and Juliet law limits the penalty substantially. As written, however, this law did not apply to same-sex couples, leaving them subject to higher penalties than opposite-sex couples for the same offence.
That promise was broken, as Romeo and Juliet contains a scene in which the then 16-year-old Hussey and 17-year-old Whiting lie naked in bed, recovering from an implied sexual act. The scene ...
In the first decade after the law took effect on September 1, 2001, local law enforcement agencies had reported about 200 crimes per year as hate crimes. However, fewer than one case a year on average had been successfully prosecuted in Texas as a hate crime. [4] This is among the states with the lowest percentage of prosecuted hate crimes. [4]
State v. Limon, 280 Kan. 275, 122 P.3d 22 (2005), [1] is a Kansas Supreme Court case in which a state law allowing for lesser punishment for statutory rape convictions if the partners were of different sexes than if they were of the same sex was found unconstitutional under both the federal and Kansas state constitutions.
Since Washington, DC’s Faction of Fools Theatre Company kicked off its Commedia dell'Arte-inspired Romeo & Juliet on January 16, intrepid theater-lovers could crisscross the United States and ...