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  2. Crime against nature - Wikipedia

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    For much of modern history, a "crime against nature" was understood by courts to be synonymous to "buggery", and to include anal sex (copulation per anum) and bestiality.[2] [3] Early court decisions agreed that fellatio (copulation per os) was not included, though mainly because the practice was not spoken about when the common-law definition was established (the first attempted fellatio ...

  3. Sodomy laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    On March 12, 2013, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit struck down § 18.2-361, the crimes against nature statute. On March 26, 2013, Attorney General of Virginia Ken Cuccinelli filed a petition to have the case reheard en banc , but the Court denied the request on April 10, 2013, with none of its 15 judges ...

  4. Sodomy law - Wikipedia

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    New Zealand inherited the United Kingdom's sodomy laws in 1854. The Offences Against The Person Act of 1867 changed the penalty of buggery from execution to life imprisonment for "Buggery". In 1961 in a revision of the Crimes Act, the penalty was reduced to a maximum of 7 years between consenting adult males.

  5. Rape laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    sodomy, unnatural intercourse, or crime against nature (only anal, generally between two men, sometimes also a man to a woman) [Note 1] sexual abuse (when an accuser was incapable of consenting due to age, or otherwise in an unequal power relation with the accused) sexual assault (can also be non-penetrative) sexual battery

  6. Aggravated sexual assault - Wikipedia

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    Aggravated sexual assault has a statutory definition in Irish law, as set out in Section 3 of the Criminal Law (Rape) (Amendment) Act 1900- " 3. —(1) In this Act " aggravated sexual assault " means a sexual assault that involves serious violence or the threat of serious violence or is such as to cause injury, humiliation or degradation of a ...

  7. Yellen launches Amazon basin effort to disrupt nature crimes

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    The U.S. Treasury will also pursue joint investigations with participating countries against groups behind nature crimes. Yellen said the Treasury has "no illusions about the challenge facing us ...

  8. Venezuelans linked to 'violent cases' were on radar of Aurora ...

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    The crimes included various motor vehicle crimes, robbery, drugs, trespass, sexual assault and aggravated assault," it said, also disputing claims that Aurora police would not patrol the area or ...

  9. Nature: Cast-off crimes must be prevented in the wild - AOL

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    And that owl is by no means the only casualty of ghost gear. David Donahue of the OWC informed me that so far this year, 22 victims of cast-off line have been brought to the center, 12 of which died.