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"Secret sex tape can't be used, court says; Man accused of assault of wife in coma"

"Secret sex tape can't be used, court says; Man accused of assault of wife in coma": Today's edition of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contains an article that begins, "Prosecutors can't use secret videotapes of a Watertown minister having sex with his comatose wife while she was in a nursing home, the 4th District Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The man faces eight felonies -- four counts of second-degree sexual assault of an unconscious person and four counts of third-degree sexual assault -- as well as a misdemeanor. The case raises a number of issues, including a nursing home's obligation to protect the health and safety of a patient, an individual's right to privacy and questions of marital sexual abuse."

And The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin reports today that "Appeals court throws out video evidence in nursing home sex case."

My earlier coverage of yesterday's ruling of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District IV, appears at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on September 12, 2008 (boomark / email).