Kaitlyn Hunt refuses plea deal in underage same-sex case

[RiverNoord]

41. OK... I'd give you my name and

Minnesota and North Dakota lawyer license numbers, but I don't that would serve any useful purpose as you just seem to want to be right at whatever you are asserting, and I see that type frequently in my profession - I'm wasting my time attempting to communicate with you with you on the subject.

Just so you know - ask any lawyer, any lawyer, anywhere in the United States what 'statutory rape' is and they will know (unless they never, ever go near criminal cases and do not have any interest being informed on criminal law, AND forgot pretty much everything from their law school crim law course or courses). It is the phrase used to describe sexual contact between a person who has reached the age of sexual consent in a jurisdiction and someone who has not, entirely regardless of whether the younger party consented. There are various terms used per jurisdiction to define the specific act or acts that constitute the criminalized behavior, and many states, such as Florida, delineate the seriousness of the criminal act in gradients based on the relative ages of the parties. So - no, I am definitely NOT mistaken that this is a 'statutory rape' case - that is PRECISELY what it is.