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State Plays Both Sides in Psychiatric Rape Case

By AAN Staff
january 31, 2003  09:43 am
State Plays Both Sides in Psychiatric Rape Case
The case involves the alleged rape of one mental patient by another mental patient on a Phoenix-area psych ward, but it's taken the government to really make things crazy. Phoenix New Times staff writer Paul Rubin reports that Maricopa County prosecutors are charging a man with the rape - - while private attorneys hired to defend the county in a civil case are arguing that, in fact, the rape never happened. And taxpayers are paying for both sides. All quite schizophrenic.
View full article at Phoenix New Times