United States Court of Military Appeals· 6/26/1978

United States v. Scoby

Citations

5 M.J. 160
1978 CMA LEXIS 11051

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holding that Constitution does not protect acts of oral sex between unmarried adults, but declining to address whether an exception would exist for a married couple
upholding Article 125 as applied to acts committed in a public place
sexual act in a “semi-private” living area in the immediate vicinity of four to seven others who may or may not have been asleep
“Where there is ‘a substantial range of conduct’ to which” a statute applies, the statute “is not fatally deficient, even though an area of uncertainty may remain.”
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Judges: Cook, Fletcher, Perry

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