First arrest under new law
A 21-year old was arraigned on Monday in what might just be the first arrest in the state for violation of a new statute: sexual assault in the fourth degree.
Sexual assault in the fourth degree criminalizes forcing someone to have "unwanted contact with bodily fluids". Here is the public act that changed the statute.
So how long before someone is charged with emitting something that is not your "commonly contemplated bodily fluid"?
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about 5 years ago
Isn’t saliva a bodily fluid? Does that mean if you spit on someone, you could now be charged as a “sex offender” and spend the next x years as a registered sex offender with all that entails?
about 5 years ago
Oops, I was wrong. The amendment doesn’t cover spit (although I wouldn’t put it past state legislators to include saliva at some point in the future).