FORS5315 Lecture Notes - Linda Fairstein, Rape Shield Law, Twenty Hours
11 Mar 2014
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In the summer of 1996, oliver jovanovic a microbiology student at colombia. University engaged in internet conversations with a woman named jamie rzucek. In initial internet conversations, jovanovic and rzucek expressed their respective interests in photos of corpses and snuff films. later, the two met up for a dinner date, which was followed by a movie at jovanovic"s apartment. Rzucek alleged that she was held unwillingly in his apartment for twenty hours, where she was bound, gagged, sodomized, and tortured. A few weeks later she filed a complaint to the police, where several bruises on her body were used as evidence. Rzucek did not press charges after she filed a complaint. Rather, manhattan sex-crime division leader, linda fairstein, did. Jovanovic claimed that all the acts at the apartment were consensual. After an initial trial, jovanovic was sentenced to fifteen years to life in prison, despite being offered a plea bargain.
