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Hamling Vs. United States

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 24, 1974

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  1. Linkletter Vs. Walker US Supreme Court · Jun 07, 1965
  2. Jacobellis Vs. Ohio US Supreme Court · Jun 22, 1964
  3. United States Vs. Reidel US Supreme Court · May 03, 1971
  4. Manual Enterprises, Inc. Vs. Day US Supreme Court · Jun 25, 1962
  5. United States Vs. Dotterweich US Supreme Court · Nov 22, 1943
  6. Hamling v. United
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  7. States - 418 U.S. 87 (1974) U.S. Supreme Court Hamling v. United
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  8. States, 418 U.S. 87 (1974) Hamling v. United
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  9. obscene Illustrated Report. Following affirmance of the convictions by the Court of Appeals, this Court decided Miller v. California
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  10. for rehearing. Petitioners challenge their convictions based upon the pre- Miller obscenity test in Memoirs v. Massachusetts
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  11. Roth v. United
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  12. offensive representations or descriptions of that specific hard core' sexual conduct given as examples in Miller v. California
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  13. Bouie v. City
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  14. a legal term of art and not a generic expression, had a definite legal meaning. Russell v. United
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  15. of the contents of materials that he distributes, and that he knew the character and nature of the materials. Rosen v. United
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  16. Smith v. California
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  17. interest in sex) may consider the material's prurient appeal to clearly defined deviant sexual groups. Mishkin v. New
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  18. relevant in determining obscenity, as long as the proper constitutional definition of obscenity is applied, Ginzburg v. United
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  19. by the Court of Appeals to be reconsidered in light of this Court's decision, announced June 21, 1973, in Miller v. California
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  20. of law shall govern obscenity convictions that occurred prior to the date on which this Court's decision in Miller v. California
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  21. to their convictions based upon the so-called Memoirs test for the proscription of obscenity. ( Memoirs v. Massachusetts
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  22. Page 418 U. S. 99 were convicted, were not strangers to this Court prior to the Miller decision. In Roth v. United
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  23. Id. at 354 U. S. 480 . That holding was reaffirmed in United States v. Reidel
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  24. U. S. 351 (1971). See also Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day
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  25. Ginzburg v. United
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  26. These petitioners were tried and convicted under the definition of obscenity originally announced by the Court in Roth v. United
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  27. States, supra, and significantly refined by the plurality opinion in Memoirs v. Massachusetts
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  28. the jury to judge the obscenity of material which, as here, has been placed into evidence. See Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton
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  29. U. S. 49 , 413 U. S. 56 (1973), Kaplan v. California
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  30. of course, long been the rule that consistency in verdicts or judgments of conviction is not required. United States v. Dotterweich
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  31. Dunn v. United
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  32. as to the same material does not mean that constitutional rights are abridged. As this Court observed in Roth v. United
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  33. results under any criminal statute. That is one of the consequences we accept under our jury system. Cf. Dunlop v. United
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  34. Miller v. California
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  35. in jury verdicts as to the obscenity vel non of identical materials is not constitutionally required, Miller v. California
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  36. occurring after a relevant event in a case will be given effect while the case is on direct review. United States v. Schooner
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  37. Bradley v. School
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  38. and this Court's decisions, at least since Roth v. United
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  39. that the Memoirs plurality test had represented a sharp break with the test of obscenity as announced in Roth v. United
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  40. States, supra, our decision in Miller v. California
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  41. questions, the standards in federal obscenity prosecutions must be national ones, relying on Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day
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  42. U.S. at 370 U. S. 488 (opinion of Harlan, J.), and United States v. Palladino
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  43. Id. at 413 U. S. 24 . When this approach is coupled with the reaffirmation in Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton
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  44. person Page 418 U. S. 105 in other areas of the law. Stone v. New
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  45. Schulz v. Pennsylvania
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  46. today arrived at standards for testing the constitutionality of state legislation regulating obscenity. See Miller v. California
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  47. we see no constitutional impediment to a similar rule for federal prosecutions. In Miller v. California
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  48. of each juror's personal opinion nor by its effect on a particularly sensitive or insensitive person or group. Miller v. California
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  49. Mishkin v. New
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  50. U.S. Supreme Court Hamling v. United
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