Law Review: South Carolina’s Sexual Conduct Laws After Lawrence v. Texas

South Carolina’s Sexual Conduct Laws After Lawrence v. Texas
Marghretta Adeline Hagood, 61 S.C. L. Rev. 799 (2010)

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In Lawrence, the Supreme Court found that a Texas law criminalizing consensual homosexual sodomy violated the right to privacy, which is a subset of substantive due process. This Note will show how, in the wake of the Lawrence decision, South Carolina’s criminal laws proscribing private consensual adult sexual activity are unconstitutional because they intrude into a constitutionally protected zone of individual liberty.