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As far as the charge of illicit sex goes, a premodern court would almost certainly have applied the doubt rule: essentially, if there are any grounds for exoneration - such as the fact that the woman thought her marriage was valid - avert the punishment.

Part of the treaty laid out that if the archbishop laid an interdict or excommunicated anyone in the lands of King Philip or any subject of King Richard in the archdiocese of Rouen, then the archiepiscopal manor of Andeli should be forfeit to either king until after a special tribunal had determined if the archbishop's punishment was valid.

In other words, a lack of honor among thieves is not a valid reason to reduce the punishment.

However, like denaturalization, see Klapprott v. United States, 335 U.S. 601, 612, expatriation under the Nationality Act of 1940 is not "punishment" in any valid constitutional sense.

In real life, punishment without a valid reason will surely prompt retaliation.

If the panel decides that the test was valid and was properly handled, it will recommend punishment.

Even here in Australia, where there are no criminal punishments and sexual orientation or gender identity claims are valid, "coming out" can be fraught with anxiety.

Gary Gilmore was executed by a Utah firing squad in 1977, having asked for that method after a moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in 1976, but a 2004 law made lethal injection the only valid form of execution.

Comparisons can be valid analytical tools, but when a perfectionist makes a comparison, the primary purpose is invariably not analysis, but self-punishment.

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