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WATSON v. STATE

No. S13A0784.

750 S.E.2d 143 (2013)

293 Ga. 817

WATSON v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

October 21, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Cyril Wilmot , Emily Brown Vowell , WILMOT & POWELL, LLC, Tifton, for appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Atty. Gen., Paula Khristian Smith, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Samuel S. Olens , Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Richard Lowery Perryman, III , Dist. Atty., Alapaha Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, Patrick Warren , Asst. Dist. Atty., Office of the District Attorney, for appellee.

HUNSTEIN, Justice.

In this criminal appeal, Appellant James Watson challenges the constitutionality of Georgia's solicitation of sodomy statute, OCGA § 16-6-15. Watson, who at the time was an officer with the City of Nashville Police Department, was convicted of the misdemeanor offense of solicitation of sodomy as well as the felony violation of oath of office, arising from his interactions with 17-year-old Chase Browning in March 2009.1

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