Rape Shield Law Case Study

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To start off with, rape shield law is a law which prohibits the use of evidence of a victim’s past sexual history to predict the victim’s credibility. In this case, a woman accuses two men of raping her but both of the defendants claim that the sexual activity was consensual. (consensual: agreed to by the people involved in it.) The two men have evidence they want to present at the trail which are, a fourth person witnessed the accuser flirting aggressively with numerous men at a local bar. The second is that the accuser had openly tried to seduce the older brother of one of the defendants. Lastly, another witness had seen the accuser sitting on a soda crate in front of the defendant whom was zipping up his pants.
Based on the rape shield law

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