[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.

[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.

[snip]

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.

[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?).

[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.

[little jeremiah]

I wonder about the writer of this article...

(I'd do some research but we're super busy right now...)

[trumandogz]

"The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives. The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime. Their right to liberty under the Due Process Clause gives them the full right to engage in their conduct without intervention of the government."

Where in the Constitution does it say that the State cannot control a person's destiny?

[Trillian]

Hmm.. lengthy illness = the AIDS?

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[sappy]

Men In Gitis.