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| Michigan: if you stray, you may be locked away |
| 2007-01-16 |
| In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan's second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in prison. "We cannot help but question whether the Legislature actually intended the result we reach here today," Judge William Murphy wrote in November for a unanimous Court of Appeals panel, "but we are curtailed by the language of the statute from reaching any other conclusion." "Technically," he added, "any time a person engages in sexual penetration in an adulterous relationship, he or she is guilty of CSC I," the most serious sexual assault charge in Michigan's criminal code |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #4 Bring back Heart Balm statutes! |
| Posted by: Javising Snomomp7901 2007-01-16 19:40 |
| #3 So having sex out of wedlock between two consenting adults has the same penalty as rape or pedaphilia? Perhaps some newsmen should be asking the legistlature if they read their own laws. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-01-16 18:20 |
| #2 Michigan is only blue because of the blacks in Detroit and the Union hacks who vote dem to get their cut. It is actually a fairly conservative state socially wrt both former mentioned groups. (Minus Ann Arbor) |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-01-16 14:44 |
| #1 And in a blue state, too! Makes one go hmmmmm................ Wonder if the people of Dearborn had anything to do w/it? |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2007-01-16 14:21 |