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The defence on the recklessly producing electricity have gone for the tried and tested defence of “that’s not actually a crime”
Technically that the crime is unspecified in Scots Law.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-20728827
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Oops. Work is mental at the mo, headless chicken!
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No, The Scottish Government isn't locking up trans men for not revealing their gender history (the Scottish Government don't go around prosecuting people - that would be the Procurator Fiscal, and prosecutions are overseen by the Lord Advocate), the CPS have nothing to do with the case and Wilson lied about his age to obtain consent. Hence the charge of obtaining sexual intimacy by fraud (note: the 23 years old and under defense was removed a few years back). The trans* aspect seems to have been introduced by the defence, not the prosecution ( ... )
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(And totally agreed on the middle one. If we can't acknowledge that this could happen to anyone, we're all fucked.)
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Incidentially, in one of the more WTF cases discussed in the original report a woman charged her husband with rape but said she didn't want to continue with the case as she'd made up with her husband. When she was told the police would continue with the prosecution she said she lied and had not been raped. When told she'd be prosecuted for perverting the course of justice (husband had been in prison all this time awaiting trial) she said she hadn't lied and the prosecution continued on her husband. Separately she was charged for perverting the course of justice in claiming she had not been raped and was found guilty of this (presumably her husband was found guilty of rape or her conviction for saying he had not raped her wouldn't stand). I conclude nothing in particular from this other than that life is complicated and sometimes unpleasant but certainly interesting.
The report is rather sad reading in fact.
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