(OBIT) Defendant in landmark sodomy ruling was not motivated by politics (Lawrence v. Texas case)

Houston Chronicle ^ | Sept. 14, 2006, 12:05AM | By ZEKE MINAYA

[weegee]

Robert Eubanks had also filed abuse charges against Tyrone and was murdered (assault) in an unsolved crime before the case against Tyrone ever went to trial.

[JRios1968]

Gee, I wonder how he got that "lengthy illness." And, what, exactly, was this "lengthy illness?"

[hsalaw]

"The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives."

Fine. I just wish they'd keep their "private lives" private, and quit trying to make us think they're "normal" and we're all homophobes.

[Arrowhead1952]

Gee, I wonder how he got that "lengthy illness." And, what, exactly, was this "lengthy illness?"

Here the thread from earlier today.

***Garner had been suffering from meningitis***

Man Involved In Landmark Gay Rights Case Dies

[JRios1968]

And just how did he get meningitis? Nevermind, I don't think I want to know...

[weegee]

And some more background...

Men whose sodomy case led to Supreme Court ruling keep low profile(Lawrence Garner Texas) (Dallas Morning News via Philly.com Thu, Jun. 26, 2003)

The secrecy served the interests of the movement, said Ray Hill, a pioneering gay rights advocate in Houston, who knows both men. "They are not the kind of people that the lawyers want to comment on this case," Hill said. "They were never a couple. . . . They are not articulate."

It was neither man's first brush with the law when a Harris County sheriff's deputy, responding to a romantic rival's false report of a man with a gun, entered the apartment at the Colorado Club on Sept. 17, 1998, and found the men engaged in sex.

For Garner, Harris County court records list arrests for assault, drunken driving and possession of a small amount of marijuana. Department of Public Safety records show only two convictions for assault, in 1995 and 2000.

Lawrence has two convictions for drunken driving and one for murder-by-automobile in 1967.

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Garner "punched me on my left eye two times" in January 2000, said Robert Royce Eubanks in an affidavit. Garner also beat Eubanks with a hose in 1999 while "using crack and drinking" and beat him with a belt in 1998, the affidavit said.

In May 1998, Garner "stabbed me on my right ring finger with a box cutter" and "grabbed a hot iron and burned me" and "then sexually assaulted me," Eubanks charged.

A temporary protective order was granted, but the case apparently was dropped after Eubanks' lawyer withdrew, saying she could not locate him for a scheduled trial.

And the city has redesigned their website so the old link to the HPD case on Eubanks death (one of two names he used) is broken.

[weegee]

Houston PING

[Last Dakotan]

The only people I have sympathy for here are the two cops who suspecting an armed suspect had to walk in and see this.

Would have burned my eyes out.

[ahayes]

And just how did he get meningitis? Nevermind, I don't think I want to know...

A little squeamish? Shopping cart, door handle, anything someone with a bacterial infection might have touched and deposited germs on. Or possibly as a secondary infection following an upper respiratory infection or ear infection.

[JRios1968]

Maybe a weakened or non-existant immune system??

[Sans-Culotte]

Hmmm.....I seem to remember that the sodomy case was politically motivated. I think I read about it on a thread here at FR. The cops get there, and find the 2 guys going at it. They refused to stop buggering long enough to even acknowledge the law-enforcement officers who were responding to a call, so they were arrested (presumably after being either pried apart or having a hose turned on them?).

[ahayes]

Possibly, but a weak immune system doesn't suddenly magically appear bacteria on you. You asked how he got it, I told you.

[bigfootbob]

you didn't say anything about the most obvious route of transmission or does fecal stew kill meningitis?

[JRios1968]

Well, when the article says he had a "lengthy" illness, I wouldn't call that "suddenly magically appear(ing) bacteria." Anywho, we're all speculating, one way or the other. Thanks!

[dfwgator]

"Come on everybody we've got quilting to do."

[ahayes]

Your ignorance regarding medicine is duly noted.

[JRios1968]

How about a little lemonade on the porch?

[bigfootbob]

Your arrogance is breathtaking. I'll bet you consider smoking worse behavior than...

[VOA]

Robert Eubanks had also filed abuse charges against Tyrone and was murdered
(assault) in an unsolved crime before the case against Tyrone ever went to trial.

Two more ticks in that column of folks living the gay lifestyle...
with longevity significantly below the average.

Unless Eubanks was a geezer.

[ahayes]

It wearies me when people are so knee-jerk emotional that they make silly comments like supposing meningitis is transmitted through anal sex. It was a silly comment. If you don't like having your silly comments pointed out, perhaps you should hit the web and find out what bacteria cause meningitis and how it is transmitted before making wrong medical pronouncements.