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• Actor: means a person charged with sexual assault or aggravated sexual assault. See
• Bodily injury: means physical pain, illness, or any impairment of physical condition. See
• Consent: means the affirmative, unambiguous, and voluntary agreement to engage in a sexual act, which can be revoked at any time. See
• Deadly force: means physical force that a person uses with the intent of causing, or that the person knows or should have known would create a substantial risk of causing, death or serious bodily injury. See
• Deadly weapon: means :

• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• Incapable of consenting: means the person:

• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Justice: when applied to a person, other than a Justice of the Supreme Court, shall mean a justice of the peace for the county for which he or she is elected or appointed. See
• Law enforcement officer: means a person certified as a law enforcement officer under the provisions of 20 Vt. See
• Person: shall include any natural person, corporation, municipality, the State of Vermont or any department, agency, or subdivision of the State, and any partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal entity. See
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• sexual act: means conduct between persons consisting of contact between the penis and the vulva, the penis and the anus, the mouth and the penis, the mouth and the vulva, or any intrusion, however slight, by any part of a person's body or any object into the genital or anal opening of another. See
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See