Sodomy Laws! Adultery!
Mood: Happy and Amused
Music: Coltrane
Money cannot buy the entertainment I got this afternoon in Crim Law. The discussion was about the constitutionality of sodomy laws. Let me just say it was class act.
Did you know that in Minnesota, a woman could be imprisoned for one year for committing adultery? [MSA ยง609.36(1)] Although the male in that relationship could be prosecuted by law, there is no corresponding statute for married men. Wow, this fair progressive state is right up there with, um...Syria?
posted by Ugly Juice @ 4:24 PM
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Do you know when the last time a woman was actually imprisoned for committing adultery in MN? Just wondering.
-LA
I don't actually know. I'll check into it sometime, but am feeling a little bit too lazy to do it right now (check it out--it's midnight and I'm at HOME, not the library! YES!) It has been more than 20 years, though. Our prof mentioned in class that the constitutionality of the law was questioned 20 years ago, and the court decided to uphold it, and therefore it's still on the books. Yikes. Another think I'm going to look into sometime when I'm not feeling so lazy is Paramour killings which used to be allowed in Texas.
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