State ex rel. Claiborne’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “A. Oral sexual battery is the intentional engaging in any of the following acts with another person, who is not the spouse of the offender, when the offender either compels the other person to submit by placing the person in fear of receiving bodily harm, or when the other person has not yet attained fifteen years of age and is at least three years younger than the offender: (1) The touching of the anus or genitals of the victim by the offender using the mouth or tongue of the offender; or (2) The touching of the anus or genitals of the offender by the victim using the mouth or tongue of the victim. B. Lack of knowledge of the victim's age shall not be a defense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 653 So. 2d 140 - State v. Busby

2. “The statutory terms defining the crime as `unnatural carnal copulation' involving the `use of the genital organ of one of the offenders' have acquired historically and jurisprudentially a definite meaning. As between human beings, it refers only to two specified sexual practices: sodomy (anal-genital intercourse of a specified nature, see below) and oral-genital activity (whereby the mouth of one of the participants is joined with the sexual organ of the other participant ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 550 So. 2d 847 - State v. Lambert

3. “It is well settled in Louisiana caselaw interpreting the crimes against nature statute that oral sex is proscribed by the statute....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 550 So. 2d 847 - State v. Lambert