Identify who you think rape shield laws protect and what a rapeshield law does. Do rape shield laws serve a positive purpose? Isvaluable testimony excluded from a trial? Should rape shield lawsbe strengthened? Should they be modified to make exceptions incertain circumstances? If so, under what circumstances should anexception be allowed? How do we balance the interests of thedefendant and the victim to a fair trial where their characterisn’t dragged through the mud?
