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5 pages. The role of consent in non-fatal offenses plays a big part in how a crime is tried by jury. While one would assume that giving one's consent would seem to make something not a crime, as in the way of sexual offenses, there have been many surprising outcomes in trials by jury. This paper gives examples and defines what the role of consent means in an offense and how it is dealt with according to the law. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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seem to make something not a crime, as in the way of sexual offenses, there have been many surprising outcomes in trials by jury. This paper gives examples and
defines what the role of consent means in an offense and how it is dealt with according to the law. WHAT IS CONSENT? When someone is accused of raping
another person, it means the use of force in order to have sex without that persons consent. But what if the sexual act was consensual? What if it
started out with the consent of the other party? That could in most cases change the entire scenario. In fact, one would assume that if there was an
act taking place between two consenting adults and that act did not harm any others, that there would be no case and no problem. Unfortunately, that is not always the
way things work. There are many reasons something that starts out as a consenting act turns ugly with one person winding up as a victim and the other as
a perpetrator. But will a jury see it that way, or a judge? There are so many variables involved that of course each case must be determined on
its own. But as we will find out just because one party consents to do something, it does not give the other party permission to do bodily harm.
STATE OF UTAH v. HARLAN LEE HAMMOND In the case of the State of Utah v. Harlan Lee Hammond (2001), Hammond was accused of rape of a minor. This
is an excellent example of what constitutes consent in the eyes of the law. In this case, Hammond was a twenty-year-old man who posed as a seventeen year old
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