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Sexual Assault BenchbookSexual Assault Benchbook
©2002–December 2009

All updates issued since this benchbook's last publication date have been integrated into the content of the benchbook. The benchbook is in PDF format and is fully searchable using Adobe Acrobat's search features. Future updates to this benchbook will be formatted according to the content and page numbers appearing in this version of the benchbook.

NOTE: This benchbook does not represent a wholesale revision of its content. It is a cumulative version of the benchbook and the updates issued for it through December 2009. Indexes and other special sections are not included.

This book is available in PDF format for viewing, printing, and/or downloading. Scroll down for links.

MJI’s Sexual Assault Benchbook provides information about:

  • Michigan’s criminal sexual conduct offenses (and other related offenses), including applicable defenses.

  • Research findings and statistics on sexual assault, its victims and its offenders.

  • Community agencies and resources that assist victims of sexual assault.

  • Special courtroom procedures that protect the rights of victims, witnesses, and defendants.

  • Evidentiary matters, including discussion of Michigan’s rape shield law, sexual assault evidence collection kits, privileges, polygraph tests, selected hearsay rules, DNA testing and admissibility, and other selected matters.

  • Communicable disease testing, and post-conviction requests for DNA testing, expungement of convictions, and destruction of fingerprints, arrest card, and description.

  • Identification and profiling systems for sex offenders, including discussion of Michigan’s Sex Offenders Registration Act (SORA), its "sexually motivated crime" filing system, the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), the DNA identification profiling system, and statutes governing the retention of a sex offender’s fingerprints, arrest card, and description.

  • Civil remedies for sexual assault victims, including discussion of the Crime Victim Services Commission.

    • Sexual Assault Benchbook (2.96MB PDF. For easiest viewing, right click the benchbook link and select "save as" and download the pdf file to your desktop. Then open the file from your local drive.)

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