Cory v. Eddens

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “lack of consent is an element of the offense” of rape and discussing informed consent as an individual’s decision to have sex with her partner after he informed her he was HIV positive
• stating a victim cannot consent to an act which is likely to produce grievous bodily harm or death
• finding the victim’s consent to sexual intercourse with her HIV-positive lover not “legally cognizable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).