"law" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Before the advent of rape-shield laws (and sometimes after), courts often treated victims more like defendants.
- Other provisions would restore protections for accusers under parts of the rape-shield law that were voided last August.
- Judge Cohen called the information "rank hearsay" and accused the defense lawyers of trying to "completely eviscerate" the rape-shield law.
- However, such a ruling seems at least as respectful of truth-seeking as an analogous feminist achievement of our time: rape-shield laws.
- At the heart of the defense's complaint is the judge's interpretation of New York's rape-shield law.
- American states have developed rape-shield laws, which prevent defendants from using the past sexual history of the victim.
- Judge Ruckriegle will also rule this spring on the defense argument that Colorado's rape-shield law is unconstitutional.
- The rape-shield laws that sometimes forbid admission of a woman's sexual history in criminal court do not apply in civil court.
- In the previous instance, on Oct. 23, he accused the four defense lawyers of trying to "completely eviscerate" the rape-shield law.
- Is the rape-shield law working?
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