“No Means No: An Argument for the Expansion of Rape Shield Laws to Case” by Austin Vining

law argumentI feel no unkind sentiments in direction of any of these gents. With all of them, I am, in the private relations of life, on terms of intercourse, of probably the most friendly character. As to our political differences, let them pass for what they are worth, right here they are nothing.

Mr. Holabird, subsequently, on the need of the Marshal propounds that respectable question, and requests precise directions, “whether or not within the occasion of a decree by the court requiring the Marshal to launch the Negroes, or in case of an attraction by the antagonistic party, it was expected the Executive warrant [to ship off the prisoners within the Grampus to Cuba,] could be executed?” These inquiries could account maybe for the truth that the same Marshal, after the District and Circuit Courts had each decided that these negroes were free, still returned them upon the census of the inhabitants of Connecticut as Slaves. Corpus, paramount even to the obsequiousness of a federal marshal to an Executive mandate. The opinion of the Attorney General, complete because it was for the annihilation of personal liberty, carried not with it the technique of undertaking its object. What then was to be accomplished?

Lieut. Paine and his officers have been questioned why they were there, and whither they had been certain? They could not tell.

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