STEPHENS, J.
¶1 For decades, Washington law treated consent as an affirmative defense to rape, meaning the defendant charged with rape had to prove the survivor of the alleged assault consented to sex. We recently recognized, however, that placing the burden of proving a consent defense on the defendant violates the defendant's due process...
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