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McDonald v. Commonwealth

FILED status graphic: McDonald v. Commonwealth. 061456 McDonald v. Commonwealth 06/08/2007 In a constitutional challenge to Code § 18.2-361 prohibiting sodomy, as applied to an adult convicted of engaging in certain proscribed sexual activity on a private and consensual basis with two minor females, the 16 and 17-year-old victims were minors as defined by the Code § 1-207 and nothing in governing constitutional case law prohibits the application of the sodomy statute to conduct between adults and minors. The judgment of the Court of Appeals …
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