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Cash (D) was 30 and picked up a runaway girl who was 15 years and 11 months. She told D that she was 17. They engaged in sexual intercourse. D was charged with statutory rape. D sought a jury instruction about his good faith belief in her age. That was denied. D was convicted and appealed.

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