Illinois lawmakers have changed a rape law as a result of a failed lawsuit against Georgia native soul singer James Brown. The law signed today suspends the statute of limitations when the victim has been intimidated or manipulated into staying quiet. Currently, a person accusing someone of rape has just two years to sue in Illinois. The shift is a response to a legal defeat for late Illinois resident Jacque Hollander. Her rape suit against Brown in 2005 was tossed by the court because the alleged gunpoint rape allegedly happened in 1988.
