Judge says sodomy case can proceed
In Virginia Beach, Virginia, a judge has ruled that a case against a man accused of soliciting sodomy can proceed, despite the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning a Texas sodomy law. Joel D. Singson stands accused of soliciting sodomy from an undercover officer in a shopping mall restroom. Circuit Judge Edward W. Hanson Jr. said the June Supreme Court ruling in Lawrence v. Texas applied to sodomy that occurs in private, not sodomy that takes place in public. Singson is charged with solicitation to commit a felony. Sodomy is a felony under Virginia law, although the law does not distinguish between private and public sodomy. Virginian-Pilot
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