Posted by
Dawnsblood on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:38:15 PM
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judge has decided that any sexual penetration during an adulterous relationship, it is a felony in Michigan.
In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan's
second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling
can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony
punishable by up to life in prison.
"We cannot help but question whether the Legislature actually
intended the result we reach here today," Judge William Murphy wrote in
November for a unanimous Court of Appeals panel, "but we are curtailed
by the language of the statute from reaching any other conclusion."
"Technically," he added, "any time a person engages in sexual
penetration in an adulterous relationship, he or she is guilty of CSC
I," the most serious sexual assault charge in Michigan's criminal code.