Women be warned: Minnesota Supreme Court sympathizes with accused rapist

So unless you don't watch the news, or just don't care, you've probably heard about Minnesota's Supreme Court decision to overturn a third-degree criminal sexual assault charge against Francois Momolu Khalil. Now, let's get this story straight real quick.

Photo taken by 'Ladeaux' from Wikimedia Commons:

Ratzeputz in a glass at a bar in Olso.

According to the New York Times, four years ago, in May of 2017, a 20 year old woman consumed five shots of vodka and a prescription pill before going to a Minneapolis bar with a friend. After being denied entry to the bar, Khalil and two of his friends invited both women to a 'party'. The women were actually taken back to an empty apartment and eventually fell asleep, or 'blacked out', on the couch. The alleged victim later woke up to Khalil on top of her assaulting her, and woke up again later to her shorts down at her ankles.

After filing a report and rehashing the victim's traumatic experience through trial, Khalil was charged with a third-degree criminal sexual misconduct and has been serving time since 2019.

Back to the present: In March of 2021, about two years after Khalil's sentencing, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled to overturn his conviction based upon the defense that the victim did not meet the technical requirements of being 'mentally incapacitated' due to the fact that she voluntarily drank alcohol before the incident.

How anyone could come to this conclusion, I don't know, especially considering the four female justices on the court.

I mean, really?

It is difficult enough for victims of sexual assault to live with the trauma of the incident, not to mention re-living it over and over if they decide to pursue legal action. Now imagine being picked apart by the press and the media, subjected to the eyes of millions, just for the judicial system to screw you over based on a lousy loophole in their flawed legislative code.

If a man I meet at a bar voluntarily gets drunk and I steal his wallet, car, and beat him up while he's passed out on the couch, do I get a pass too? After all, he voluntarily got drunk, right?

Some people may say, 'Well, no, because stealing is still a major crime even if someone's drunk and passed out.'

To that I ask, is rape not a major crime if a woman isn't blackout drunk? Is raping a sober person not a felony offense?

That's what I thought.