Ohio Appeals will hear Keith Phillips gay importuning case
The Eleventh Ohio District Court of Appeals will decide whether or not to overturn the conviction of Keith Phillips, 22, a gay man who was convicted twice of “importuning” under a city ordinance modeled after an Ohio law making it a crime for a person to ask another person of the same sex for sex, if the person being asked could have been offended. The law was ruled unconstitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court in May, 2002 - yet Phillips’ first conviction was seven months later after a co-worker complained. He was 19 at the time.
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