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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="3-319" title_number="3" title_name="Other Crimes Against the Person" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Sexual Crimes">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Evidence relating to a victim’s reputation for chastity or abstinence and opinion evidence relating to a victim’s chastity or abstinence may not be admitted in a prosecution for:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a crime specified under this subtitle or a lesser included crime;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the sexual abuse of a minor under § 3-602 of this title or a lesser included crime; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the sexual abuse of a vulnerable adult under § 3-604 of this title or a lesser included crime.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Evidence of a specific instance of a victim’s prior sexual conduct may be admitted in a prosecution described in subsection (a) of this section only if the judge finds that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the evidence is relevant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the evidence is material to a fact in issue in the case;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the inflammatory or prejudicial nature of the evidence does not outweigh its probative value; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the evidence:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is of the victim’s past sexual conduct with the defendant;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is of a specific instance of sexual activity showing the source or origin of semen, pregnancy, disease, or trauma;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>supports a claim that the victim has an ulterior motive to accuse the defendant of the crime; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>is offered for impeachment after the prosecutor has put the victim’s prior sexual conduct in issue.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Evidence described in subsection (a) or (b) of this section may not be referred to in a statement to a jury or introduced in a trial unless the court has first held a closed hearing and determined that the evidence is admissible.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The court may reconsider a ruling excluding the evidence and hold an additional closed hearing if new information is discovered during the course of the trial that may make the evidence admissible.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
