SENATE BILL No. 975

 

 

February 12, 2004, Introduced by Senators PATTERSON, CROPSEY, JOHNSON, HAMMERSTROM, SIKKEMA, VAN WOERKOM, KUIPERS, ALLEN, BIRKHOLZ, BISHOP, GOSCHKA, TOY, GEORGE and STAMAS and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

        

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                 A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled                                             

                                                                                

    "The Michigan penal code,"                                                  

                                                                                

    (MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 520n.                              

                                                                                

                THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:                      

                                                                                

1       Sec. 520n.  It is a rebuttable presumption in a prosecution                 

                                                                                

2   for a violation of section 520b, 520c, 520d, or 520e, that, if              

                                                                                

3   the victim or the actor was married at the time of the alleged              

                                                                                

4   violation to an individual other than the victim or the actor,              

                                                                                

5   the victim did not consent to the sexual contact or sexual                  

                                                                                

6   penetration.