Goodman v. United States

This is another case in which a defendant was convicted on a charge of assault after intimately touching the person of a 'police officer in a homosexual manner.

The facts follow the same pattern as those presented to us in earlier cases. And the arguments advanced as grounds for reversal are the same as those we have considered and rejected on a number of occasions.

Just a few days ago we had occasion to discuss the general problem at some length. Henderson v. United States, D.C.Mun. App., 117 A.2d 456. We reviewed the law and decided, as we had in the earlier cases, that a man who takes…