Section 3-319 – Rape and Sexual Offense — Admissibility of Evidence
(a) Evidence relating to a victim’s reputation for chastity or abstinence and opinion evidence relating to a victim’s chastity or abstinence may not be admitted in a prosecution for: (1) a crime specified under this subtitle or a lesser included crime; (2) the sexual abuse of a minor under § 3-602 of this title or a lesser included […]
Section 3-319.1 – Rape and Sexual Offense — Evidence of Physical Resistance
(a) Evidence of physical resistance by the victim is not required to prove that a crime under this subtitle was committed. (b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section may not be construed to affect the admissibility of evidence of actual physical resistance by the victim.
Section 3-320 – Rape and Sexual Offense — Jury Instructions
In a criminal prosecution under § 3–303, § 3–304, §§ 3–307 through 3–310, § 3–314, or § 3–315 of this subtitle, a judge may not instruct the jury: (1) to examine the testimony of the prosecuting witness with caution, solely because of the nature of the charge; (2) that the charge is easily made or difficult to […]
Section 3-321 – Crime of Sodomy Repealed
The common law crime of sodomy has been repealed.
Section 3-322 – Unnatural or Perverted Sexual Practice
(a) A person may not: (1) take the sexual organ of another or of an animal in the person’s mouth; (2) place the person’s sexual organ in the mouth of another or of an animal; or (3) commit another unnatural or perverted sexual practice with another or with an animal. (b) A person who violates this section is guilty of […]
Section 3-323 – Incest
(a) A person may not knowingly engage in vaginal intercourse with anyone whom the person may not marry under § 2-202 of the Family Law Article. (b) A person who violates this section is guilty of a felony and on conviction is subject to imprisonment for not less than 1 year and not exceeding 10 years.
Section 3-324 – Sexual Solicitation of Minor
(a) In this section, “solicit” means to command, authorize, urge, entice, request, or advise a person by any means, including: (1) in person; (2) through an agent or agency; (3) over the telephone; (4) through any print medium; (5) by mail; (6) by computer or Internet; or (7) by any other electronic means. (b) (1) A person may not, with the intent to commit a […]
Section 3-301 – Definitions
(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated. (b) “Mentally incapacitated individual” means an individual who, because of the influence of a drug, narcotic, or intoxicating substance, or because of an act committed on the individual without the individual’s consent or awareness, is rendered substantially incapable of: (1) appraising the nature of the individual’s conduct; […]
Section 3-302 – Construction of Subtitle
In this subtitle an undefined word or phrase that describes an element of common-law rape retains its judicially determined meaning, except to the extent it is expressly or impliedly changed in this subtitle.
Section 3-303 – Rape in the First Degree
(a) A person may not: (1) (i) engage in vaginal intercourse with another by force, or the threat of force, without the consent of the other; or (ii) engage in a sexual act with another by force, or the threat of force, without the consent of the other; and (2) (i) employ or display a dangerous weapon, or a physical object […]