Golden v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. ““... Section 22.011(a)(2) defines certain sexual contacts with a child as offenses. Consent is irrelevant to statutory rape. Section 22.011(d) does not refer to consent. We decided in Boulding the defendant had demonstrated the promiscuity defense applied when he proved the complainant was fourteen years old and had engaged promiscuously in sex before the offense, [footnote omitted]. Although our constitutional analysis was contrary to Boutwell, our analysis of the promiscuity issue agreed with the Court of Criminal Appeals’ Bout-well analysis. Therefore, we follow Bout-well and our Boulding analysis of the promiscuity defense. We hold section 22.-011(d) does not require a defendant to raise consent before he can assert the promiscuity defense. Consent is simply irrelevant to statutory rape. Under the old statute, a defendant could use promiscuity to prove a child was capable of consent if he proceeded on the theory the child had consented. In section 22.011(d) the legislature has mandated acquittal of statutory rape charges when the child is over fourteen and under seventeen and has been promiscuous before the indicted offense.” “... The purpose of the newer statutory rape statute was to prevent imposition upon females under the age of seventeen by older and presumably more experienced males, [footnote omitted]_ Nevertheless, the newer statutory scheme does not protect sexually ‘promiscuous’ girls unless the State can allege forcible rape in the indictment and prove beyond a”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pawson v. State