Men whose sodomy case led to Supreme Court ruling keep low profile(Lawrence Garner Texas)

Dallas Morning News via Philly.com ^ | Posted on Thu, Jun. 26, 2003 | BY BRUCE NICHOLS

[Under the Radar]

Please ping me to any more of these threads. I am convinced this was a set up from the get-go. The DA will be penning his best-seller in a few years, count on it.

[pseudo-ignatius]

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.

And the article says that these two men (Lawrence and Garner) don't appear "as a couple." But isn't Justice Kennedy right in saying "When sexuality finds overt expression in intimate conduct with another person, the conduct can be but one element in a personal bond that is more enduring. The liberty protected by the Constitution allows homosexual persons the right to make this choice."

Well, it certainly *seems* that sodomy was an such an occasion of conduct for these two men... /sarcasm off