Transcripts for CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield 201508

CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield August 19, 2015 16:19:00

it didn't happen at all. and we should be aware, in new hampshire there are two varieties of felonious sexual assault. we are focusing on the age of the alleged victim here but the law says that where someone -- where the victim is between 13 and 16 and the perpetrator is four years of age or older, that may not have been the case here. but there's an alternate and that is where the defendant is in a position of authority. so if this case is being charged because they was prefect as a senior at this school, then that -- then consent becomes very important because states -- most states, if not all states, have what has been called romeo and juliet laws. i didn't name them that, but that's what they're called. >> teen lovers. >> exactly. and this defendant came -- if this was a consensual encounter may have fallen within new hampshire's law that gives that exemption. >> i have to wrap it up here. boris, i'm going to give you a heads up to watch for what happens when her testimony wraps in terms of cross-examination, that's one of the things i can never get my head around.

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