Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence V. Texas
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (963 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393345122 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Indeed, the readers most likely to be surprised by Flagrant Conduct are those who think they already know the basic outlines of the case. (Kirk Swinehart - The Daily Beast)Superb and memorable…. Gripping and brilliantly researched, Flagrant Conduct takes us on a journey of hate and contempt, activism and dedication that finally led to the legalization of our right to love, to pursue intimate pleasures within the privacy of our homes. Dale Carpenter’s assiduous unearthing of the case’s early history…highlights how every great constitutional decision owes its existence to obscure individuals whose crucial contributions proved more essential to the final outcome than anything in the legal briefs or oral arguments. (Blanche Wi
James Hiller said A Page Turning Examination. Back in "A Page Turning Examination" according to James Hiller. Back in 200A Page Turning Examination Back in 2003, the Supreme Court reversed a seventeen year long decision by affirming the right for a group of people to engage in consensual sexual conduct in the privacy of their own home. The decision was a moment of elation and celebration; the timing, coming on the heels of pride weekend across the country, fueled joy that the gay community had finally had the right to step out from under discriminatory laws. What was even more amazing, after reading Dale Carpenter's new book, "Flagrant Conduct", was how little. , the Supreme Court reversed a seventeen year long decision by affirming the right for a group of people to engage in consensual sexual conduct in the privacy of their own home. The decision was a moment of elation and celebration; the timing, coming on the heels of pride weekend across the country, fueled joy that the gay community had finally had the right to step out from under discriminatory laws. What was even more amazing, after reading Dale Carpenter's new book, "Flagrant Conduct", was how little. 00A Page Turning Examination Back in 2003, the Supreme Court reversed a seventeen year long decision by affirming the right for a group of people to engage in consensual sexual conduct in the privacy of their own home. The decision was a moment of elation and celebration; the timing, coming on the heels of pride weekend across the country, fueled joy that the gay community had finally had the right to step out from under discriminatory laws. What was even more amazing, after reading Dale Carpenter's new book, "Flagrant Conduct", was how little. , the Supreme Court reversed a seventeen year long decision by affirming the right for a group of people to engage in consensual sexual conduct in the privacy of their own home. The decision was a moment of elation and celebration; the timing, coming on the heels of pride weekend across the country, fueled joy that the gay community had finally had the right to step out from under discriminatory laws. What was even more amazing, after reading Dale Carpenter's new book, "Flagrant Conduct", was how little. Definitive and engaging This is the definitive book on a legal development of epic significance, reflecting much relevant research on the part of its resourceful author. In addition, the volume is beautifully written. A disturbing finding is that the two men were probably not having sex, and may never have. Nonetheless, the lawyers were able to use the incident to reshape the law.. Threading the needle Jon Hunt There are so many layers of sizzle in Dale Carpenter's book, "Flagrant Conduct", that one might be hard pressed to have a favorite moment. This book, concerning the landmark "Lawrence v. Texas" case, is a terrific read for anyone interested in not only the recent history of sodomy laws in this country but how the United States Supreme Court works.The author spends a fair amount of time revisiting the actually "crime" and focuses as much on the police officers who were involved in the search of John Lawrence's home
In situating Lawrence v. So begins Dale Carpenter’s "gripping and brilliantly researched" Flagrant Conduct, a work nine years in the making that transforms our understanding of what we thought we knew about Lawrence v. Drawing on dozens of interviews, Carpenter has taken on the "gargantuan" task of extracting the truth about the case, analyzing the claims of virtually every person involved. Indeed, when Harris County sheriff’s deputies entered the second-floor apartment, there was no gun. Instead, they reported that they had walked in on John Lawrence and Tyron Garner having sex in Lawrence’s bedroom. Carpenter first introduces us to the interracial defendants themselves, who were hardly prepared "for the strike of lightning" that would upend their lives, and then to the Harris County arresting officers, including a sheriff’s deputy who claimed he had "looked eye to eye" in the faces of the men as they allegedly fornicated. Nobody could have imagined that the arrest of two men for a minor criminal offense would reverberate in American constitutional law, exposing a deep malignity in our judicial system and challenging the traditional conception of what makes a family. The author charts not only the careful legal strategy that Lambda Legal attorneys adopted to make the case compatible to a conservative Supreme Court but also the miscalculations of the Hous
. He lives in Minneapolis. Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Dale Carpenter is the Earl R