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Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is on a permanent bad-drug trip. This is conveyed in the hallucinatory manner of terrible 1960s movies. It turns out that the drug was administered to him, without his consent, by the government. The passages where this information is vouchsafed remind us of '70s paranoid thrillers. Since the drug was given to him in Vietnam (it was supposed to make everyone in his Army unit more aggressive), we are reminded of the '80s effort to come to terms with the war. And since at one point he is afforded a promising glimpse of the afterlife...
Therein lies the core of Peterson's defense. "I'm not convinced that ((Sarah's)) mentally ill or deficient," says his lawyer, Edward Salzsieder. As to the issue of consent, he argues, "If she appears to be perfectly normal and we have sexual contact between consenting adults, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it." Salzsieder maintains that the defendant had no idea that Sarah was mentally ill. At the time of his arrest, though, Peterson admitted to the police that he knew Sarah had several personalities and said that young Emily was "peeking" during their sexual activities...
California law specifically states that a person who is "unconscious of the nature of the act" of sex cannot legally give consent. Thus, said Wahlig, anyone who has sex with an intoxicated person in effect commits statutory rape...
They live in a marital limbo, separated from husbands -- sometimes for decades -- but unable to divorce. According to Jewish religious law, which binds Israeli Jews, a wife may not be granted a divorce without her husband's consent. At least 10,000 Israeli women, known as the Agunot (the anchored) have husbands who are unwilling to give that permission. Says Ora Sasson, who has been trying to get a divorce for eight years: "I don't know where I stand. I'm not married. I'm not a widow...
...each year after 1992, if the fund increases, the excess would be distributed through a formula devised by the state secretary of administration and finance, with the advice and consent of the Local Government Advisory Committee. If the fund decreases after 1992, each town or city will have the amount it receives decreased by the same percentage...