Bowers v.Hardwick/Definition

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In a closely divided (5-4) case originating in Georgia, in 1986 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the right of privacy did not apply to homosexual conduct. Michael Harwick had been arrested on a sodomy charge after police entered his house to serve a traffic warrant and found him in bed with another man.