Northern Mariana Islands · Commonwealth Code Title 6 — Crimes & Criminal Procedure
6 CMC § 1310: General Provisions
What this law says, in plain English
This statute establishes an affirmative defense for prosecutions involving age-based offenses, allowing defendants to claim they reasonably believed the victim was old enough, except when the victim was under 16.
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