‘No’ Does Not Necessarily Mean ‘No’ In North Carolina

'The 1979 North Carolina Supreme Court ruling in State v. Way declared that women cannot legally revoke consent during a sexual encounter. This ruling came to public attention earlier this year when state senator Jeff Jackson (D-Mecklenburg) sponsored legislation to amend state law. Jackson’s bill would make it so that “a person who continues to engage in intercourse after consent is withdrawn is deemed to have committed the act of intercourse by force and against the will of the other person.” State of Things host Frank Stasio discusses the 1979 case and its implications with Amy Guy, a woman in Wake County, who was not able to press charges for rape against her estranged husband and also Carissa Hessick, professor of law at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Melanie Shekita, assistant district attorney in Wake County.' -- The State of Things | WUNC 91.5