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 Judge David Smith in hot water over "technical rape" ruling

I knew Judge David Smith was in strife the moment he said "technical rape". What a free kick for the victim industry. Didn't this horse-haired male fogey know that even a woman's "yes" could today mean "no"? And so poor Smith has endured a too-predictable monstering ever since he admitted on Wednesday he was "troubled" by the case of a man who'd kept having sex with a drunk woman who'd nodded off. In fact, the South Australian judge was so troubled, he said, that he needed more time to consider whether he should even sentence the man for a rape to which even he had confessed. But which student of human frailty wouldn't be troubled, too?