Re: CSI: Miami 12/17/2007

Barry Margolin wrote:
> Mason Barge 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.

Indeed. And the parents of the girl would have likely had to give
consent for the marriage in the first place.