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Dallas lawyers have put together an impressive legal team to defend the accused in sexual assault cases from a variety of local and national special interest groups. This legal team includes only the most successful trial lawyers who are willing to go the extra mile in court to fight for the rights of the victim and to do it on a completely no fault basis. There are a number of local sexual assault defense lawyers who represent a variety of clients who were charged with committing a criminal offense involving sex, however, there are just a very few who specialize in defending those who have been accused of rape.
The Dallas Criminal Defense Attorneys Association (DCDA) has reviewed hundreds of sexual assault defense cases in the past two decades and has found that there is a significant increase in the rate of convictions in 2008. This increase in the number of convictions has been attributed to the fact that the “rape shield” clause in state law was expanded to include “sexual assault.” This is a dangerous expansion of the state’s rape laws that have a disastrous impact on the rights of victims. The expanded “rape shield” clause can potentially allow prosecutors to use any information pertaining to a victim’s sexual history in order to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused person is guilty. The DCDA and other criminal justice groups are currently examining over twenty bills that have been introduced in the Texas legislature that would reform the state’srape laws.
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These bills are designed to remove the “catch-all” phrase from the state’srape statute, which could allow a prosecutor to use any information relating to a victim’s sexual history to prove their case. Current Dallas criminal defense lawyers feel that the “rape defense” provisions in the state’scode are already vague enough to give prosecutors too much flexibility when handling cases. “The problem is that the ‘brush’ with the state’s code will vary from one district attorney to another, which makes it nearly impossible for criminal lawyers to properly prepare a defense in any case,” said Richard Warren, Executive Vice-President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) in an interview with the Dallas Morning News. ” Prosecutors won’t even bother to bring up the fact that the act wasn’t really rape if they don’t have to, since the current law allows them to.” According to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, proposed changes to the state’state law would also make it easier for criminals who assault someone because of “personal acquaintance” to escape punishment if they are found not guilty by a jury.
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Currently, seven states still have no civilian sexual assault laws: Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Oregon and Utah. The Arizona legislation, which is currently alive, would allow a conviction for spousal rape for men who did not actually commit the crime. The provision for women in the Arizona crime bill would be to allow a conviction for spousal rape for women who are married to a man who commits that crime. Currently, 25 states and the District of Columbia already have some type of spousal rape law, including California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oregon and Utah.
Many defense lawyers, both private and government workers, believe that these statutes are frequently being abused by prosecutors and police officers. They point to the hundreds of false claims of sexual assault that result from officers’ confusion about what can and cannot be considered as sexual assault. For example, a female police officer responding to a domestic dispute would likely find it impossible to conclude that the male victim was guilty of committing rape simply because he had intercourse with her. Similarly, it is often impossible for a prosecutor to prove that a man raped his girlfriend after having oral sex.
But according to NACDL Executive Director Paul Cambria, “rape is now seen as a crime of power and dominance by a certain group of people.” “We have become a country that believes women are the weaker vessel in which a man chooses to rape her.” He went on to add, “It is not the man’s responsibility to prove that the sexual act is consensual. The woman has to prove that she cannot be reasonable and safe in the environment in which the sex occurs.” In other words, it’s not the man’s burden to defend himself against a charge of rape if the woman has remained unable to provide any corroborating evidence that she was not raped.