Robert Royce Eubanks, 40, has since been sentenced to 15 days for filing a false report with the police. He is said to know both of the men arrested. Speculation is that jealousy played a role in his placing the call to the police.At a hearing Nov. 20, John Geddes Lawrence, 55, and Tyrone Garner, 31, pleaded no contest to the sex charge, refused to pay the fine of $125 each, and will now challenge the law in a criminal trial.
Garner told the Associated Press that he felt his civil rights were violated, and Lawrence described the police raid as "sort of Gestapo." Lambda Legal Defense has entered the case on behalf of the plaintiffs. "We believe the law is an outrageous intrusion into the private liberties of lesbian and gay Texans," said Lambda´s Suzanne B. Goldberg. "It´s unconstitutional for this law to single out gays and criminalize their behavior."
Attorney Doyal had feared that there never would be another legal challenge that would get the Texas sodomy statute completely off the books.
If the homosexual lobbyists can speculate that he made the fraudlant call out of jealously, I can speculate that the 3 homosexual men who knew each other acted in concert to create the situtation they found themselves in. Houston isn't a safe city. I would not recommend leaving an apartment door unlocked; especially if you are in the bedroom having sex. But then again, who continues having sex after investigating officers have made their presence known? From the outset they made it clear that they planned to overturn the law.