Women legislators, incensed at the overturning of a rape conviction by a court that ruled it is impossible to rape someone wearing jeans, wore the offending garment into the Italian parliament Thursday as part of an emphatic protest. Their anger was stirred after a court accepted the argument of Carmine Christiano, a 23-year-old driving instructor, who claimed that he couldn't have raped an 18-year-old girl because she was wearing jeans. He claimed the sex was consensual. The legislators, led by rightist deputy Alessandra Mussolini, threatened to continue their noisy protests until the Constitutional Court restored Christiano's original two-year, eight-month prison sentence.
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Women legislators, incensed at the overturning of a rape conviction by a court that ruled it is impossible to rape someone wearing jeans, wore the offending garment into the Italian parliament Thursday as part of an emphatic protest. Their anger was stirred after a court accepted the argument of Carmine Christiano, a 23-year-old driving instructor, who claimed that he couldn't have raped an 18-year-old girl because she was wearing jeans. He claimed the sex was consensual. The legislators, led by rightist deputy Alessandra Mussolini, threatened to continue their noisy protests until the Constitutional Court restored Christiano's original two-year, eight-month prison sentence.
