Carnival Against Sexual Violence 39

It's posted at abyss2hope.  This is the Legal section:

In Baltimore Police Officer Gets Probation For Alleged Rape of A 16 Year Old Girl posted at Pick Your Battles, we get a discussion of a plea deal made after some of the forensic evidence in the case disappeared while in the control of the Baltimore police department.

In It's Always the Woman's Fault posted at Shakespeare's Sister. we get a discussion about typical victim blaming by a defendant during sentencing which fell flat with the judge in large part because Kenneth Cooke's victim was only 4 years old.

In Deacon Blues: New Jersey Court Finds Confession Inadmissible Based Upon Cleric-Penitent Privilege posted at EvidenceProf Blog, we get a discussion of a ruling about a confession made while the clergyman viewed himself as acting in the role of employer and not in the role of spiritual advisor.

In Exonerations Show Flip Side Of Injustice Against Those Who Report Rape posted at abyss2hope: A rape survivor's zigzag journey into the open, I discuss the frequent use of exonerations to justify hostile treatment of those who report rape and how acceptance of bigotry against victims harms defendants.

In Sealed Juvenile Records May Not Be Unsealed For Use In SVP Proceedings posted at Criminal Appeal, we get a discussion about the unsealing of juvenile records so a parole board could evaluate whether the person met the sexually violent predator civil commitment criteria.

In Rape, lies and county debts posted at Hoyden About Town, we get a discussion of the possibility that a California woman who pleaded no contest to a charge of filing a false police report will be levied the expenses for the criminal investigation when this expense doesn't seem to get levied for other false police reports.

In Virginia Governor Proposes Rape Law Reform posted at The Curvature, we get a discussion of the proposed changes to current law which currently include allowing a statutory rapist to escape prosecution by marrying the victim and which allows police to require rape victims to take a lie detector test.

In Rape and the Limits of Law posted at IntLawGrrls, we get a discussion of the role and power of law in dealing with rape in countries at war or that have ongoing sectarian violence.

In Tale as Old as Time: Blame the Victim posted at Feminist Law Professors, we get a discussion of the denied request by Broadway actor James Barbour (who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges in the reported groping of a 15-year-old fan) to set up his own hotline seeking information from other men "falsely accused" by this girl.

In Rape Case Where Victim Not Allowed To Say Rape Won't Be Retried posted at abyss2hope: A rape survivor's zigzag journey into the open, I discuss the latest ruling by the judge who barred certain words from Tory Bowen's testimony which caused the prosecution to abandon the case.