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Shame, Angry Judges, And The Social Media Effect, Maxine D. Goodman
Shame, Angry Judges, And The Social Media Effect, Maxine D. Goodman
Catholic University Law Review
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Observations On Macdonald V. Moose, Kevin C. Walsh
Observations On Macdonald V. Moose, Kevin C. Walsh
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In MacDonald v. Moose, a split panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to undo the state criminal conviction of an adult for soliciting oral sex from a minor. Based on Lawrence v. Texas, the court held a longstanding Virginia prohibition of bestiality and sodomy to be partially facially unconstitutional. Its decision left the bestiality prohibition untouched while holding the sodomy prohibition completely unenforceable, even as applied in cases involving minors.
The panel majority misapplied the deferential standard of review required by Congress for federal habeas …