WinterBorn
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In 2008, Nelson Sloan and Ryan Flynn were arrested by the Raleigh Police Department under North Carolina's "crime against nature" statue for engaging in private, consensual, homosexual sex. The charge is considered a Class I felony in the state and carried a punishment of up to two years in prison.
The Raleigh police Captain at the time, T.D. Hardy, explained that, even though the states law against sodomy had been struck down by Lawrence, his department's actions were still valid:
The Assistant District Attorney eventually decided to drop the charges against the two men, citing Lawrence. Sloan responded by noting that he had nonetheless been punished for consensual sex:
After the charges were dropped, Joe Furmick, the veteran Wake County magistrate who booked the two men, explained why he chose to continue enforcing the states unconstitutional "crime against nature" law:
And the DA dropped the charges just like I said because he knew the law was invalid. The fact that a Wake County individual choose to charge someone based on an unconstitutional law is a problem for Wake Country to deal with in there training program.
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Were they arrested?
Still irrelevant. Police can arrest someone for anything or nothing. Conviction shows someone is guilty of a crime.
I guess you slept thru the whole "innocent until proven guilty" part of civics class too? Not surprising.