Legal Opinion
Lovisi v. Slayton
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided August 31, 1973No. Civ. A. 420-72-RPublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
MERHIGE, District Judge.
Aldo and Margaret Lovisi, inmates in the Virginia penal system at the time this action was commenced, petition the Court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 for writs of habeas corpus holding invalid their convictions under Va.Code Ann. § 18.1-212 of the crime of sodomy. The Lovisis, husband and wife, were convicted and sentenced to a term of two years by the Corporation Court of the City of Virginia Beach of committing sodomy with one another. Margaret Lovisi was also convicted by that Court of committing sodomy with a third party, one Earl Romeo Dunn, for which…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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3Cited by40 opinions
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