Flagrant Conduct The Story of Lawrence V. Texas

Name: Flagrant Conduct The Story of Lawrence V. Texas
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ISBN: 9780393345124

ISBN-10: 0393345122

ISBN-13: 9780393345124

Edition: 2013

Authors: Dale A. Carpenter

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No one could have predicted that the night of September 17, 1998, would be anything but routine in Houston, Texas. Even the call to police that a black man was "going crazy with a gun" was hardly unusual in this urban setting. Nobody could have imagined that the arrest of two men for a minor criminal offense would reverberate in American constitutional law, exposing a deep malignity in our judicial system and challenging the traditional conception of what makes a family. Indeed, when Harris County sheriff’s deputies entered the second-floor apartment, there was no gun. Instead, they reported that they had walked in on John Lawrence and Tyron Garner having sex in Lawrence’s bedroom.So begins…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/17/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.82" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction



Before the Arrests



A Crime of Deep Malignity



The City and the Cause



The Defendants and the Troublemaker



The Department and the Deputies



The Arrests



The Intrusion



Uncivil Disobedience



A Probable Explanation for an Improbable Case



The Homosexual Status Law



After the Arrests



From the Jail to the Bar



From the Gay Bar to the Bar



Into the Texas Courts



The Constitutional Case Takes Shape



The Politics of Law



The Constitutional Mainstream



Mismatch at the Supreme Court



Respect for Their Private Lives


Epilogue Sweet Land of Liberty


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index