it's now illegal for some of you EFers to have sex...

[meeks]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25609866/

MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin law bans sex with dead bodies, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in reinstating charges against three men accused of digging up a corpse so one of them could have sex with it.

The court waded into the grisly case after lower court judges ruled nothing in state law banned necrophilia. Those decisions prompted public outrage and a push by a state lawmaker to make sex with a corpse a crime.

In Wednesday's 5-2 decision, the high court said Wisconsin law makes sex acts with dead people illegal because they are unable to give consent.

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The ruling reinstates the attempted sexual assault charges against twin brothers Nicholas and Alexander Grunke and Dustin Radke, all 22. The charges carry a punishment of up to 10 years in prison.

Sex without consent
Justice Patience Roggensack, writing a majority opinion with three other justices, said state law bans sexual intercourse with anyone who does not give consent "whether a victim is dead or alive at the time."

"A reasonably well-informed person would understand the statute to prohibit sexual intercourse with a dead person," she wrote.

Jefren Olsen, an attorney who represented Radke, said the decision was flawed because the law was never intended to punish necrophilia.

"Obviously, the facts are rather notorious and not the easiest to deal with," he said. "I assume that had some impact."

Police say the three men, carrying shovels, a crowbar and a box of condoms, went to a cemetery in southwestern Wisconsin in 2006 to dig up the body of Laura Tennessen, 20, who had been killed the week before in a motorcycle crash.

Nicholas Grunke had seen an obituary photo of her and asked the others for help digging up her corpse so he could have sexual intercourse with it, prosecutors say.

Authorities say the men used shovels to reach her grave but were unable to pry open the vault. They fled when a car drove into the cemetery and were eventually arrested.

Attempted assault charges
The men were charged with attempted third-degree sexual assault and misdemeanor attempted theft charges. The case has been on hold as prosecutors appealed the dismissal of the assault charges.

Suzanne Edwards, a lawyer representing Nicholas Grunke, said she was disappointed in the decision. She said the men will be arraigned on the charges and have a chance to plead not guilty.

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, whose office represented prosecutors in the appeal, praised the decision.

"Words matter and the Legislature chose its words carefully to extend the sexual assault law to those heinous circumstances where a dead person is sexually assaulted, whether or not the defendant killed the victim," he said. "Necrophilia is criminal in Wisconsin."

The decision brings Wisconsin into line with more than 20 other states that prohibit necrophilia or the abuse of a corpse, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. California joined the group in 2004 after prosecutors said they couldn't bring charges in some cases without an official ban.

The law in Wisconsin had been murky, and two dissenting justices insisted Wednesday that lawmakers did not mean to ban necrophilia but to allow assault charges when someone was raped and then killed.

[Steve James]

"Wisconsin law bans sex with dead bodies, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in reinstating charges against three men accused of digging up a corpse so one of them could have sex with it."

See, there they go again, meddling in your affairs.

[Bär]

Yeah - where are the libertarians to defend your right to hump a corpse when you need them? The government is just getting too big I say! Flip-floppers!

[shawnsegler]

Damn, and I had my evening all planned out and everything.

S

[Steve James]

At least you don't have to buy dinner.

[shawnsegler]

or deal with incessant chatter.

S- likes quiet intimacy

[Steve James]

Alls I know is that when they come they'll have to drag it from my warm live hands.

or

Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to marry them.

I can't decide. This'll have to go the Supreme Court.

[shawnsegler]

One of the candidates needs to start milking the undertapped corpsefucker voting bloc.

S

[Dmitri]

One of the candidates needs to start milking the undertapped corpsefucker voting bloc.

There was this great movie about the necrophiliac girl... Can't remember the name, dammit. It was really good. Creepy of course, but very well made I thought.

[Steve James]

There was this great movie about the necrophiliac girl... Can't remember the name, dammit. It was really good. Creepy of course, but very well made I thought.

Were the boys all dying to meet her? Or, was she a killer?

[Dmitri]

Found it:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116783/

Where's that thread with Ian asking for quiet, dark and weird movies? He should definitely watch this one.

[shawnsegler]

http://www.amazon.com/Wisconsin-Death-Trip-Michael-Lesy/dp/0826321933

This thread made me think of this great book.

S

[MikeC]

Sheesh! Next thing you know it'll be illegal to for your dog to fart the Star Spangled Banner....

[nianfong]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25609866/
Police say the three men, carrying shovels, a crowbar and a box of condoms, went to a cemetery in southwestern Wisconsin in 2006 to dig up the body of Laura Tennessen, 20, who had been killed the week before in a motorcycle crash.

why the hell would you need a box of condoms for a corpse?

[Josealb]

why the hell would you need a box of condoms for a corpse?

Fong....i read that and i thought of an answer...and then a question for my answer...and then an answer to that and my brain almost exploded.

What the hell?