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Opponents of this view point out that it is extremely difficult to determine what constitutes "seduction" or even genuine "consent" between adults. Sir Patrick Devlin, formerly a judge on Britain's highest court, argues that the distinction between private and public morality is obscure and indefensible. Many U.S. jurists agree, among them New York State Supreme Court Justice Samuel Hofstadter, who believes that "discretion and privacy" cannot make the difference "between a wrongful and a lawful act"-as, for instance, in the case of incest. He supports a compassionate attitude but feels that "to legalize homosexual conduct...
...answer is that Hernandez was guilty of statutory rape-intercourse with a girl who is under the legal age of consent. Hernandez went on trial...
...living apart from his wife and family. Because Sophie seems to him like a piece of important information he must acquire, Tancredi sets out to seduce her. Sophie finally, almost wearily, succumbs. Then the cool lovers discover that they are madly in love-but briefly, advisedly and with muted consent. Eventually they part...
With the general consent? This seemed to suggest that a referendum-the first national vote since 1947-might be arranged during 1966 to give the Spanish people a say on the future pattern of Spain. Underscoring the possibility was the announcement last week that a new census of voters will be taken by April...
After Pappas met with the Authority, the BRA began to prepare preliminary plans for the project. By June 1962, matters had progressed far enough so that the Pappas Brothers and Maurice Simon, a Boston real estate developer, presented an application for consent to form a corporation to carry out the project under urban renewal law. The wheels were rolling...