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MICHAEL M. v. SONOMA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, 450 U.S. 464

MICHAEL M. v. SUPERIOR COURT OF SONOMA COUNTY (CALIFORNIA, REAL PARTY IN INTEREST). 450 U.S. 464

450 U.S. 464 | 1981-03-23

U.S. Supreme Court

MICHAEL M. v. SONOMA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, 450 U.S. 464 (1981)

450 U.S. 464

MICHAEL M. v. SUPERIOR COURT OF SONOMA COUNTY (CALIFORNIA, REAL PARTY IN INTEREST). 

CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA. 

No. 79-1344. 

Argued November 4, 1980. 
Decided March 23, 1981. 

Petitioner, then a 17 1/2-year-old male, was charged with violating California's "statutory rape" law, which defines unlawful sexual intercourse as "an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a female not the wife of the perpetrator, where the female is under the age of 18 years." Prior to trial, petitioner...