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Strange Asks Court to Rewrite Alabama’s Sodomy Law

By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY – The Alabama Legislature’s inability to react in the wake of Lawrence v. Texas, a 2003 US Supreme Court opinion declaring all laws prohibiting private, consensual sexual acts between adults unconstitutional, may prove fatal to the prosecutions of those accused of serious sexual misconduct throughout the State. In … Continued
June 20, 2014

Alabama Anti-Sodomy Statute Struck Down A Decade After Supreme Court Ruling

By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY – Just over a decade after the US Supreme Court ruled state bans on consensual sodomy unconstitutional, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has finally invalidated our version of the archaic prohibition. In 2003, in Lawrence v. Texas, the United States Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a Texas statute … Continued
June 17, 2014