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In an effort to comply with the law and address this dilemma, the Michigan State Supreme Court in March 2023 proposed a rule effectively sealing district court records once a case is bound over to ...
Herschel Fink, general counsel for the Detroit Free Press, said the rule appears to violate case law from the U.S. Supreme Court and Michigan courts that says court records are open to the public.
The reform effort involves more than 50 state level organizations, with at least one group operating in each state. [2] The National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (RSOL) arranges yearly national conferences to discuss sex offender legislation, [11] [21] [22] and makes its presence known at conferences of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
After the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder, several changes were brought under the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013 to strengthen rape shield laws in India. A new section, 53A, was introduced to the Indian Evidence Act which stated that in prosecution for sexual offences, evidence of the victim's character or previous sexual experience with any ...
According to the New York Times South Dakota was the first state to outlaw marital rape. [8] Nebraska also eliminated the spousal exemption in 1975. The state modernized its law to use the term "sexual assault" rather than "rape", and to be gender neutral, rather than to assume a male perpetrator and female victim.
A Michigan rape investigation reveals the failures surrounding a federal grant program intended to help law enforcement address the rape kit backlog. How one Michigan case reveals problems with ...
Adult Survivors Act; New York State Legislature; Full name: AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to the statute of limitations for civil actions related to certain sexual offenses committed against a person eighteen years of age or older, reviving such actions otherwise barred by the existing statute of limitations and granting trial preference to such actions; and to ...
That law had originally been enacted to discourage 'topless' waitresses. The women were initially convicted, but on appeal two of the women's charges were reversed by the New York State Court of Appeals in 1992 on equal protection grounds in Santorelli's case. [291] [292] [293] [269] Franklin v.