Word: sutin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago, a divided state appeals court threw out the indictment. Judge Ramon Lopez explained that delinquency was defined as conduct that would be criminal in an adult, and noted that New Mexico had eliminated criminal penalties for consensual sex between adults. Concurring, Judge Lewis Sutin called intercourse with a young boy "nothing more than sex education essential and necessary in his growth toward maturity and subsequent domestic family life." This was too much for the New Mexico Supreme Court. On its own motion, the state high court last week reversed the appeals court and reinstated Mrs. Favela...