Katherine Bailess and State v. Limon

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Filmography 2.1.1 Film 2.1.1.1 Short films and videos 2.1.2 Television 3 References 4 External links

Early life

Bailess was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi to Natalie and Bobby Bailess. Her father is an attorney and was a former linebacker for the Ole Miss Rebels football team at the University of Mississippi and was a teammate with Archie Manning. She began training classically in dance at age 4. She also participated in competitive gymnastics and cheerleading throughout her childhood. At age 11, Bailess performed on the televised Miss Mississippi Pageant as a dancer, and continued to perform for the pageant for 7 years. She won scholarships to study dance at both the Broadway Dance Center in New York City and Ann Reinking's Broadway Theater Project in Florida. She was a debutante. She attended St. Francis Xavier Convent School and later St. Aloysius Catholic High School, from which she graduated in 1998 before going on to attend Marymount Manhattan College where she studied musical theatre and dance. After college, Bailess went on to study at the William Esper Studio's two-year intensive program. Career

Bailess starred in the 2003 film From Justin to Kelly, playing the role of Alexa, and Universal’s Bring It On Again playing the role of Colleen Lipman. Her TV credits include recurring roles on the popular WB shows Gilmore Girls and One Tree Hill. Kat also recurred on Fox’s The Loop, Sordid Lives the Series and guest starred on NCIS. Bailess starred in the YouTube comedic series Shit Southern Women Say written and directed by Julia Fowler.

She co-produced the film Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale. Bailess was also featured on the soundtrack for From Justin to Kelly on the tracks The Luv' (The Bounce), Wish Upon a Star, That's the Way I Like It, and Brighter Star.

Bailess currently plays the role of Kyle Hart in the VH1 scripted series Hit the Floor. Filmography Film From Justin to Kelly as Alexa Bring It On Again as Colleen Lipman Below the Beltway as Hope P. Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale as Stephanie 2 Dead 2 Kill as Anna Falactic Stone Markers as Newscaster Sea of Fear as Kate Jackass Number Two as a dancer Short films and videos The Bootlegger as Angie Prick as Hot Blonde Yoga/Pilates Workout System as Herself Shit Southern Women Say Television Gilmore Girls as Stephanie One Tree Hill as Erica Marsh Hit the Floor as Kyle Hart The Loop as Wende Sordid Lives: The Series as Nurse Warning NCIS as Madison AfterBuzz TV as Herself Once Upon a Time as Charlotte La'Bouf

State v. Limon and Katherine Bailess

Contents 1 Background 2 Appeals 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

Background

In February 2000, a week after his eighteenth birthday, Kansas resident Matthew R. Limon engaged in a consensual act of oral six with a 14-year-old boy. The difference in their ages at the time of the act was three years, one month and a number of days. Under the state's Romeo and Juliet law (K.S.A. § 21-3522), the penalties for statutory rape are less severe if the incident involves two teenagers. The Kansas statute specifically excluded same-sex sexual conduct. Because of this exclusion, Limon was charged under K.S.A. § 21-3505(a)(2) with criminal sodomy.

Limon's attorneys filed a pretrial motion to dismiss the charges, arguing that K.S.A. § 21-3522 was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because it discriminated on the basis of sex and sexual orientation. The motion was denied and Limon was convicted of criminal sodomy. He was sentenced to 17 years and two months in prison. Had the sexual encounter been between a male and female, the maximum sentence would have been 15 months. Limon was also required to register as a sex offender and to submit to five years of supervision upon release. Appeals

Limon appealed his case to the Kansas Court of Appeals, which affirmed his conviction citing Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986), a United States Supreme Court case which upheld sodomy laws as constitutional. His appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court was also denied and Limon appealed to the United States Supreme Court in 2002.

On June 26, 2003, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003) a constitutional challenge to the sodomy law of Texas. The Court explicitly overruled Bowers. On June 27, in light of its decision in Lawrence, the Court vacated the Kansas Supreme Court's decision upholding Limon's conviction and remanded the case for further consideration. The Kansas Court of Appeals again upheld the conviction and sentence in January 2004, with one judge of the panel dissenting. The Kansas Supreme Court ruled on October 21, 2005, that the "Romeo and Juliet" statute violated the Equal Protection Clauses of both the United States Constitution and the Kansas constitution and struck the words "and are members of the opposite sex" from K.S.A. § 21-3522. Limon was released from prison on November 3, 2005. See also LGBT rights in the United States
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