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No it's not. Gillianseed provided a direct quote from the police interview. Did you just guess at this? Or do you have something to contradict the police inter

• foobarqux 12y ago
  https://image.slidesharecdn.com/110630skeletonargument-130125193654-phpapp01/95/skeleton-argument-for-the-appellant-julian-assange-110630-29-638.jpg?cb=1359165049 https://image.slidesharecdn.com/110630skeletonargument-13012... Allegedly SW was re-interviewed and confirmed that she was half-asleep. Page 54 of the document you cite also says that she was "half-asleep".
  • rbobby 12y ago
    I definitely missed the re-interview. However the full quote is: > Sofia also said that, when she was half asleep on her side, she had been aroused from slumber to feel that Assange was inside her. Which is quite different from a plain "half asleep", especially with the rest of the sentence: "aroused from slumber to feel that Assange was inside her". Even in its best light, assuming "half asleep", this begs the question of whether someone in that state can consent to sex (under the Swedish legislation), and/or whether a reasonable person could believe that there was consent. I'd say no... but I will grant that this sort of question is why judges and juries are necessary.
    • belorn 12y ago
      It indeed begs the question and the concept of "helpless state" in which the law talks about. I am not sure that there exist any precedence, as I think the law that this would normally trigger has so far only address situations when a person is in a helpless state because of drugs or mental status.