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Why the 'voluntary intoxication loophole' makes rape hard to prosecute

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with former prosecutor Jane Manning about the gap in the law in New York and nearly two dozen other states that makes it hard to prosecute rape if the victim has been drinking or taking drugs beforehand.

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