Court of Appeals of North Carolina February 15, 2005, COA04-251 (State v. Pope)

HUNTER, Judge.

In this appeal, this Court must decide whether the United States Supreme Court opinion in

Lawrence v. Texas,

539 U.S. 558, 156 L. Ed. 2d 508 (2003) renders North Carolina’s crime against nature statute, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-177, unconstitutional. For the reasons stated herein, it did not.