Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, based in Richmond, ruled that the Virginia sodomy statute is facially unconstitutional under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 decision, Lawrence v. Texas, and granted a writ of habeas corpus vacating the criminal conviction of a Virginia man who had been prosecuted for soliciting oral sex from a teenage girl. Virginia authorities had taken the position that because the Supreme Court’s ruling in Lawrence v. … <Read More>