Man cleared of rape because he was too drunk to realise which bed he was in.

[ElephantsAndMiasmas]

Sorry DM but here.

This guy's girlfriend refused sex, he stumbled into another room "by accident" and started having sex with the woman in the bed there.

He was cleared of rape.

There is so much wrong with this that I don't know where to start. I imagine he's been cleared because he didn't intend (apparently) to commit a crime. But the fact is that neither woman had consented to sex with him, so whoever he decided to penetrate it would have been rape. He seems to have been cleared on the grounds that if he had walked back into his (non-consenting) girlfriend's room and penetrated her without further ado, that would not have been rape. It obviously would have been.

:( scared and all at once.

Ah, that's good, Prolesworth. Can you link to a source?

Yeah exactly MQ :(

Have you got a link for that, Proles?

x-posts :)

@InmaculadaConcepcion,

Not sure I have any specific answers, but I do think it needs to be seen less as a technical legal problem and more as a cultural and political one.

going by the facts in the article alone (which is all i have to go by) i am absolutely shocked by this case.

his defence is absolutely unbelievable.

in what other criminal acts can alcohol be seen to diminish your responsibility / judgement to be able to use it as an excuse?

poor woman.

You see, I didn't like the wording of the bit about false claims at all. It pre judges the outcome of be research - I think rape-apologists will be all over that one.

No Jean, they've done the research that shows they are uncommon already.

'Not sure I have any specific answers, but I do think it needs to be seen less as a technical legal problem and more as a cultural and political one.'

that's interesting. I think it's both - you can find technical solutions to cultural problems.

So sorry and angry on your behalf brokengirl. What the hell was wrong with that jury.

The Daily mail is contributing to the pereption that false allegations are common. They continually seem to run stories of false allegations. That paper is vile. The result is juries like brokengirl faced.It makes my blood boil.

Perception

The original story has finally been covered by someone other than the Mail. Telegraph

As I said yesterday,, the torygraph has just churned the Mail's story. There is no original reporting in that short price, it even directly quotes the Mail.