Legal Opinion
State v. Rundlett
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided September 20, 1978PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKUSICK, Chief Justice.
The issue presented by this appeal is whether 17 M.R.S.A. § 3151 (1964), Maine’s former “statutory rape” law, 1 violated the equal protection clauses of the constitutions of the United States (amend. XIV, § 1) and the State of Maine (art. I, § 6-A). Section 3151, now superseded by our new Criminal Code, 2 punished males for engaging in sexual intercourse with females under age 14, but did not similarly penalize females for engaging in sexual intercourse with males under age 14. 3
In July 1977 a jury found defendant George Rundlett guilty on three out of four counts of…
2Cases cited31 opinions
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- Frontiero v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by25 opinions
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- Barnes v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1979
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