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From: ins_aprm@jhunix.UUCP (Paul R Markowitz)
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Subject: Re: Supreme Court Ruling on Sodomy
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Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 10:03:44 EDT
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In article <12507@amdcad.UUCP> linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer) writes:
>I remember reading in the newspaper that a heterosexual couple had
>originally participated in the challenge to the sodomy law.  Their
>complaint was thrown out by the court, because it was determined that
>there was virtually no chance they would ever be prosecuted for sodomy.
>This raised the question of equal protection under the law.
>
>Did anyone else read the same thing?

This doesn't raise the question of equal protection because the homosexuals
involved in the Hardwick case were NOT prosecuted.  The charges against
them involving sodomy were DROPPED before they ever got to the police
station.... They took the case to court anyway.  The basis for the swing
vote on teh Supreme Court (I don't remember which judge) was that the 
law has never been and will never be prosecuted.

Paul
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