Last week I did a post on the arrest of two Raleigh, North Carolina men who were charged with sodomy under the North Carolina "crimes against nature" statute which North Carolina has failed to repeal (as has Virginia) in the wake of the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas which invalidated the sodomy statues. Now, Wake County is dropped the charges. I hope that all records of the arrest charges are expunged from the record. I also hope that the police are reprimanded for this outrageous conduct in charging the men in the first place. Here are highlights from the News & Observer:
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RALEIGH - Citing a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, Wake County prosecutors dropped charges Friday against a pair of Raleigh men.
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Assistant District Attorney Adam Moyers concluded that any acts between the men were consensual and private.
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In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that made homosexual acts a crime. Sodomy laws remain on the books in North Carolina, Moyers said. "But so does cohabitation," he added, referring to another rarely enforced rule that outlaws unmarried couples living together.
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