Respondent's Brief - Respondent's Brief, Table Of Contents, Questions Presented, Statement, Summary Of Argument - In The Supreme Court of the United States

Respondent's Brief - Respondent's Brief

Respondent's Brief - Table Of Contents

Questions presented Statement Summary of argument Argument Conclusion …

Respondent's Brief - Questions Presented

Respondent's Brief - Statement

A citizen informed Harris County sheriff's deputies that an armed man was "going crazy" in the apartment of petitioner Lawrence. Pet. App. 129a. The investigating officers entered the apartment and observed the petitioners engaged in anal sexual intercourse. Id. They were then charged by complaint in a Harris County justice court with the commission of the Class C misdemeanor …

Respondent's Brief - Summary Of Argument

Respondent's Brief - Argument

A. The appellate record is inadequate to support the recognition of the limited constitutional right asserted by the petitioners. The appellate record does not establish that the petitioners would actually benefit from recognition of the particular liberty interest which they assert; therefore, it does not provide this Court with a factual basis for recognizing that interest. Precise identificatio…

Respondent's Brief - Conclusion

It is respectfully submitted that the petition for writ of certiorari should be dismissed as improvidently granted, or, in the alternative, that the judgment of the Texas Court of Appeals for the Fourteenth District should be in all things affirmed. Charles A. Rosenthal Jr. Harris County District Attorney William J. Delmore III* Scott A. Durfee Assistant District Attorneys Harris County, Texas 120…