A Central Coast lawmaker and Santa Barbara County's district attorney are trying to close an obscure state law on rape.
Assemblyman Katcho Achadjian says he was outraged after a California court of appeals recently overturned a rape conviction for a man because the woman he attacked was not married.
The panel based its decision on a law stemming from 1872.
Achadjian introduced a bill back in 2011 extending the rape law to cover unmarried women after a similar case in Santa Barbara.
His bill will receive its first legislative committee hearing in Sacramento Tuesday at 9 a.m.
District Attorney Joyce Dudley is also in Sacramento Tuesday morning urging lawmakers to pass the bill.
Local lawmakers present bill to close loophole in state rape law
POSTED: 08:01 AM PDT Mar 12, 2013
UPDATED: 05:13 PM PDT Mar 12, 2013
Local lawmakers present bill to close loophole in state rape
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