rape conviction

Examples

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• This would, of course, become a key concern of the 1966 Miranda Court, which reversed a rape conviction that was anchored by a confession obtained by a perhaps innocuous two-hour interrogation.

  Academic text (2018)

• And unless and until feminists start to care about the innocent men that their efforts will inevitably send to jail, I really won't be able to care one wit about increasing rape convictions.

  Blog text (9)

• One day he got fired because the bosses found out... ...about a prior rape conviction.

  Walled In (2009)

• Sullivan has shown a violent history... ...including a prior rape conviction.

  Walled In (2009)

• Commanders and senior enlisted are deathly afraid of how a rape conviction in their unit might reflect on them (yet strangely find it perfectly okay to sweep things under the rug).

  Blog text (6)

• This is precisely why rape laws favor the rapists, why it is so difficult to get rape convictions, and why things like nagging and mild coercion employed by boyfriends to get laid are seen as okay, even by the women who give in to it.

  Blog text (26)

• The documentary highlights the wrongful rape conviction that led to years of imprisonment for innocent men.

• After a lengthy trial, the jury reached a verdict of rape conviction against the defendant based on overwhelming evidence.

• Her activism focuses on supporting victims who have suffered from a rape conviction that was later overturned.

Synonyms

C

conviction

vsrape conviction

• Formal

282 4.3

A formal court decision that says someone is guilty of a crime

is limited to a specific non-consensual sexual offence rather than any crime

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