Commenters on many sites are heatedly debating over whether or not a woman can rape a man.
For example, the owner of a badly-lit car park should not be held liable for a rape that occurred there, even if he could reasonably have foreseen such an incident.
Robot soldiers would not commit rape, burn down a village in anger or become erratic decision-makers amid the stress of combat.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court clarified that Argentina's Constitution and human rights treaties would not allow such a prohibition in cases of rape.
Not only is pregnancy not evidentiary of rape, it could not even rise to the level of creating a presumption of a crime.
"It's not appropriate within hours or days of reporting a rape to be telling someone how hard it is to take it through court, " she said.
She says many cases do not even get to court because there is a stigma attached to rape, and families would often discourage their daughters from complaining.
Her face was concealed with a hood, a common practice in India, where law does not allow rape victims to be identified publicly to protect them from the stigma attached to rape in the conservative country.
In recent cases, "compelling" DNA evidence, which linked one suspect to a rape and the other to a murder "could not be used and neither suspect could be convicted".
What must be proven in a rape case has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not the victim became pregnant.
Last year Mark Dixie was jailed for a rape and murder that might never have been solved had he not had a DNA sample taken following his arrest (and subsequent release) over a pub brawl a few months later.
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It said such circumstances would include cases of rape, incest, fatal foetal abnormality or when a woman chooses not to continue with a pregnancy.
Five men accused of the crime are on trial at a specially convened fast-track court in Delhi where they have pleaded not guilty to rape and murder charges.
Steubenville, Ohio (CNN) -- One of the teens who recorded himself mocking the girl at the center of an Ohio rape case "did a really dumb thing and regrets it" but did not commit any crime, his lawyer said Monday.
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Herring, who has battled paranoid schizophrenia mostly by, as the SI story points out, drinking malt liquor and other alcohol, is not accused of causing her death. (Instead, a man who once served time for rape was accused Jan. 14 of murdering her.) However, Herring was arrested in connection with the case.
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Within a year, it had been used in a Leicestershire double-rape-and-murder case, to prove one man could not have committed the crimes and to confirm another had.
But more than the legal machinations, there is a question that continues to linger over the case: Was there a so-called rape culture in Steubenville that allowed football players to believe they would not be held accountable for any wrongdoing?
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Mr Sharpton has been made to admit that he never asked Miss Brawley about the rape before accusing Mr Pagones (his explanation: he would not dream of discussing sex with a young girl).
Is he implying, as it appears, that there is a cost barrier beyond which it ceases to be worthwhile for companies to make sure they are not funding rape and war through their purchases?
During cross-examination, Mark Milliken-Smith QC, for Bassam Karrar, suggested Girl Three had not made a formal complaint at the time of the attack because her account was "a wholly false allegation of rape".
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