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Nov 29, 2000 criminal-law rape mental-incapacity consent revised-penal-code supreme-court

Rape and Mental Incapacity: Consent, Force, and the Case of People v. Lopez

A niece with mild mental retardation is raped by her uncle. The Court explains consent, force, and why the death penalty failed.