As discussed in Chapter 6,the 2003 U.S.Supreme Court case of Lawrence v.Texas:
A) criminalized nose picking, punishable by a $500 fine.
B) applied the death penalty to the crime of selling illegal drugs.
C) affirmed Texas's criminality of homosexual sex.
D) struck down Texas's criminality of homosexual sex.

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Lawrence v. Texas struck down Texas's criminality of homosexual sex, stating that it violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This case overturned the previous precedent set by Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), which had upheld Georgia's criminalization of homosexual sex.

As Discussed in Chapter 6,the 2003 U