Re: CSI: Miami 12/17/2007

In article <5rydnY3IMourPPfanZ2dnUVZ_oGjnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Mason Barge" <masonbarge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Here's a trickier one.  George, aged 30, marries Carol, aged 16, in a
state 
> where it's legal.  If they move to a state where the age of consent is
17 or 
> 18, could he be convicted of statutory rape? 

I suspect most statutory rape laws exempt married couples.  So as long 
as the second state accepts the first state's marriage, there's no rape.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 MA
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