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- NATION, Page 37American NotesTRIALS"She Asked For It"
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- The accused rapist: a drifter from Georgia. The accuser: a
- 22-year-old woman who was wearing a white lace miniskirt, a green
- tank top and no underwear on Nov. 6, 1988, when she claimed she was
- kidnaped at knifepoint from a Fort Lauderdale restaurant parking
- lot and raped twice. The jury's verdict last week: not guilty, on
- the ground that she had solicited sex. "We all feel she asked for
- it for the way she was dressed," explained jury foreman Roy
- Diamond.