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On 04 Apr 2022, Trump Is A RUSSIAN ASSET <jthomq@gmail.com> posted some news:t2fo54$3jcke$31@news.freedyn.de:

Bullshit. It was purely to try and get Trump. How many times will
crooked New York change the laws to try and get Trump?

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York will expand its legal definition of rape to include various forms of nonconsensual sexual contact, under a bill
signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday.

The state’s current limited definition was a factor in writer E. Jean
Carroll’s sexual abuse and defamation case against former President
Donald Trump. The jury in the federal civil trial rejected the writer’s
claim last May that Trump had raped her in the 1990s, instead finding
the former president responsible for a lesser degree of sexual abuse.

The current law defines rape as vaginal penetration by a penis. The new
law broadens the definition to include nonconsensual anal, oral, and
vaginal sexual contact. Highlighting Carroll's case at a bill signing
ceremony in Albany, the Democratic governor said the new definition will
make it easier for rape victims to bring cases forward to prosecute perpetrators. The law will apply to sexual assaults committed on or
after Sept. 1.

“The problem is, rape is very difficult to prosecute," Hochul said.
“Physical technicalities confuse jurors and humiliate survivors and
create a legal gray area that defendants exploit.”

In Carroll's case against Trump, which stemmed from an encounter at a
Manhattan luxury department store, the judge later said that the jury’s decision was based on “the narrow, technical meaning” of rape in New
York penal law and that, in his analysis, the verdict did not mean that
Carroll “failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people
commonly understand the word ‘rape.’”

At Tuesday's bill signing, state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who sponsored
the legislation, said the new changes would also make it easier for
members of the LGBTQ community to hold perpetrators of sex crimes
accountable.

“We can’t have our laws ignore the reality that so many New Yorkers, particularly LGBTQ New Yorkers, among others, have experienced,” the
Democrat said.

“Before today, many of those assaults wouldn’t be able to be classified
as rape in New York state," he said.

“But now we fixed that language,” he said.

https://news.yahoo.com/york-expands-legal-definition-rape-194125847.html

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