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State Argues Reading of Assault Law Seems To Give Assailant 'Free Pass'

New Jersey Law Journal

January 17, 2013

A Morris County prosecutor asked the state Supreme Court on Monday to overturn an "absurd" interpretation of a sexual assault statute: one that seems to allow beating a victim so long as it is not too severe.

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