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S15 E12: [Consent Awareness Network] Consent in Our Lives and Laws

Something Was Wrong

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The Importance of Defining Consent

When we define consent, what will happen is that model jury instructions will have to be rewritten. Model jury instructions would then inform both the prosecution and the defense in regard to what becomes admissible in a court of law. So things related to what the victim was wearing or whether the victim had previous sexual contact with this person would become irrelevant and admissible at trial. What the courtroom will focus on is what was the causation that brought these two people together in sexual conduct? Was it malicious or was it not malicious? It was not malicious, then it was not a crime.

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