@failures art,
Quote: If you enter a plea of innocent, the STATE has the burden of evidence, not the accused.
under old rape law the default was that consent was assumed, it had to proved to not be consent. The new default is that consent is assumed not to be given, until it has been proven. The state is trying to prosecute the accused, they have already decided that there was no affirmative consent, they then argue that there was none. Unless the defendant can convince a jury or a judge that the state is wrong he is going away.
Where the rubber meets the road the defended now needs to prove his innocents, though they system is not honest about this. Feminists I am sure think this is great, they after all only care about the criminal justice system so far as they can use it. Corrupting it by overturning the principle of "innocent until proven guilty" is of no concern to them.