Legal Question in Constitutional Law in Texas

My Girlfriend Is 20 and I Am 16

I know that it is illegal for us to have intercourse but i belive if we did the lawsuite could be pulled I kno im young but I am way more mature than most all kids in my grade and possibly even my whole school i was really wondering i guess if it is also legl for me to represent myself yes it sounds crazy but i have already thought all of it out. The whole thing really revolves around the maturaty of the people. if a 16 yr old shoots a person he should be tried as an adult because is mature enough to make that distion to pull the trigger not if i was to have sex with my girlfriend i have made that disition unmonipulated and unpressured in fact i am pushing her. and another thing the law says that it is not statatory rape if the two people are married so if you really look at it this all ties bak to no sex before marrage which is in the bible which is illegal to mix in court so therefore the law is unjust in this way im kind of rambling but i hope i got my point across

signed

Aaron Mata


Asked on 7/28/08, 11:39 pm

2 Answers from Attorneys
Roger Evans Mathis & Donheiser

Re: My Girlfriend Is 20 and I Am 16

What you are proposing, or what you are doing, is criminal and your girlfriend could serve serious jail time, be labeled as a pedophile and a sex offender and required to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life. Is that what you, as a "mature" person, want for her and for you?

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Answered on 8/01/08, 1:38 pm
Edward Hoffman Law Offices of Edward A. Hoffman

Re: My Girlfriend Is 20 and I Am 16

Sex between an adult and a minor is a crime regardless of how mature the minor may be -- or, more to the point, how mature he may think he is.

Courts don't weigh the maturity of the minor; they simply verify that he or she was underage when the sexual contact occurred. The argument you want to make would not even be considered; it certainly would not succeed.

Besides, if the case went to court it would be a criminal prosecution of your girlfriend, not a civil lawsuit. You would not be a party to the case, whether you want to have counsel or represent yourself.

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Answered on 7/29/08, 5:07 pm


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