DePRIEST v. COM.

Record Nos. 1587-99-3, 1595-99-3, 1596-99-3, 1597-99-3, 1598-99-3, 1599-99-3, 1600-99-3, 1601-99-3, 1619-99-3, 1920-99-3.

537 S.E.2d 1 (2000)

33 Va. App. 754

Elvis Gene DePRIEST v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia. Larry Rierson Jones v. Commonwealth of Virginia. Russell Newaii Poindexter v. Commonwealth of Virginia. James Patrick Fay v. Commonwealth of Virginia. Phillip Wayne Evans v. Commonwealth of Virginia. Barry Wayne Hodges v. Commonwealth of Virginia. John Johnson, s/k/a John William Johnson v. Commonwealth of Virginia. Lawrence T. Martys, s/k/a Lawrence P. Martys v. Commonwealth of Virginia. Everette Elmo Davidson v. Commonwealth of Virginia. Ronald Waller, s/k/a Ronald Thomas Waller v. Commonwealth of Virginia.

Court of Appeals of Virginia, Salem.

November 21, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam Garrison (David Denton Lawrence; Michael B. Massey; Trumbo & Massey, P.L.C., Richard Lee Lawrence & Associates, on briefs), Roanoke, for appellants.

John H. McLees, Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General (Mark L. Earley, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Amicus Curiae: Log Cabin Republican Club of Northern Virginia (William G. Kocol; Eugene M. Lawson, Jr., Resident Counsel, on brief), for appellants.

Amicus Curiae: The Liberty Project (Julie M. Carpenter; Jared O. Freedman; Elena N. Broder-Feldman; Jenner & Block, Washington, DC, on brief), for appellants.

Amicus Curiae: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, Inc., and Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. (Michael Adams; Matthew Coles; Marianne Merritt; Philip Hirschkop, Alexandria; Rebecca K. Glenberg, Richmond; Stephen R. Scarborough, Atlanta, GA; Hirschkop & Associates, P.C., Alexandria, on brief), for appellants.

Present: COLEMAN, WILLIS and ELDER, JJ.


WILLIS, Judge.

These ten consolidated appeals are from judgments of conviction in the Circuit Court of the City of Roanoke for solicitation to commit oral sodomy in violation of Code §§ 18.2-29 and 18.2-361.1 The appellants contend that the trial court erred in ruling that Code § 18.2-361: (1) does not violate the fundamental right to privacy guaranteed by Article I of the Constitution of Virginia; (2) does not violate the...

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