LOVISI v. SLAYTON

Civ. A. No. 420-72-R.

363 F.Supp. 620 (1973)

Aldo Mario LOVISI et al. v. A. E. SLAYTON, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

August 31, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard E. Crouch, ACLU, Washington, D. C., T. David Thelen, ACLU of Virginia, Richmond, Va., for plaintiffs.

Robert E. Shepherd, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., for defendants.


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...

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