Italy's highest court has ruled that a woman wearing jeans cannot be raped.
The Supreme Court of Appeal in Rome on Wednesday overturned a rape conviction, saying that the supposed victim must have agreed to sex because her jeans could not have been removed without her consent.
A court in the southern town of Potenza had convicted a driving instructor of raping his 18-year-old pupil.
The instructor, aged 45 and identified only as Carmine, had been sentenced to 34 months' jail.
His defence had argued that the young woman - identified as Rosa - had consented to sex, a version of events which the woman strongly denied.
The Supreme Court ruled that it was impossible .....
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