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Smith Vs. United States

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 23, 1977

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  1. United States Vs. Orito US Supreme Court · Jun 21, 1973
  2. Public Clearing House Vs. Coyne US Supreme Court · May 31, 1904
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  3. United States Vs. Reidel US Supreme Court · May 03, 1971
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  4. Manual Enterprises, Inc. Vs. Day US Supreme Court · Jun 25, 1962
  5. Smith v. United
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  6. States - 431 U.S. 291 (1977) U.S. Supreme Court Smith v. United
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  7. States, 431 U.S. 291 (1977) Smith v. United
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  8. the contemporary community standards for appeal to the prurient interest and patent offensiveness that under Miller v. California
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  9. Cf. Hamling v. United
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  10. conduct covered by the statute can be ascertained with sufficient ease to avoid due process pitfalls. Cf. Hamling v. United
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  11. post, p. 431 U. S. 311 . MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court. In Miller v. California
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  12. and 725.6 (1973). In 1973, however, the Supreme Court of Iowa, in response to the standards enunciated in Miller v. California
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  13. of any obscene or immoral drama, play, exhibition, or entertainment, was unconstitutionally vague and overbroad. State v. Wedelstedt
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  14. to his case. And the 1976 legislation, of course, has no effect on petitioner's criminal liability. Cf. Marks v. United
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  15. for the trier of fact in a state obscenity prosecution were set out in Miller v. California
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  16. In Hamling v. United
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  17. offensiveness is to be treated in the same way. 413 U.S. at 413 U. S. 26 , 413 U. S. 30 . See Hamling v. United
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  18. does not mean, however, that juror discretion in this area is to go unchecked. Both in Hamling and in Jenkins v. Georgia
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  19. See Hamling v. United
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  20. Jenkins v. Georgia
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  21. against which the jury decides the questions of appeal to prurient interest and patent offensiveness. In Hamling v. United
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  22. On the contrary, we have indicated on several occasions that legislation of this kind is permissible. See Hamling v. United
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  23. Miller v. California
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  24. the State might add a geographic dimension to its regulation of obscenity through the device of zoning laws. Cf. Young v. American
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  25. offensive representations or descriptions of that specific hard core' sexual conduct given as examples in Miller v. California
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  26. Hamling v. United
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  27. be judged according to the average person in the community, rather than the most prudish or the most tolerant. Hamling v. United
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  28. Roth v. United
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  29. and not simply their own subjective reactions, or the reactions of a sensitive or of a callous minority. See Miller v. California
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  30. Cf. Jenkins v. George
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  31. U. S. 306 is always appropriate for the appellate court to review the sufficiency of the evidence. Cf. Ginzburg v. United
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  32. thesis were made in cases that followed Stanley v. Georgia
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  33. home, the Court upheld the statute. A similar result was reached, in the face of similar argument, in United States v. Orito
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  34. right to possess the material in the privacy of the home. 413 U.S. at 413 U. S. 141 . See also United States v. Reidel
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  35. permits a federal prosecution will render the States' right meaningless. See Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton
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  36. patent offensiveness. Those are questions for the jury to decide, in its traditional role as factfinder. United States v. Danley
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  37. juries might reach different conclusions as to the same material does not render the statute unconstitutional. Roth v. United
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  38. Faches v. N.D
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  39. was first used in Roth v. United
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  40. material to be judged merely by the effect of an isolated excerpt upon particularly susceptible persons. Regina v. Hicklin
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  41. to the position that a national community standard was not constitutionally mandated, compare Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day
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  42. U. S. 478 , 370 U. S. 488 , and n. 10 (1962) (opinion of Harlan, J.), and Jacobellis v. Ohio
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  43. U. S. 184 , 378 U. S. 195 (1964) (opinion of BRENNAN, J.), with Miller v. California
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  44. to this rule that has been recognized is for material aimed at a clearly defined deviant sexual group. Mishkin v. New
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  45. York, 383 U. S. 502 , 383 U. S. 508 (1966). See Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton
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  46. Jacobellis v. Ohio
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  47. U.S. Supreme Court Smith v. United
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  48. of the Court. In Miller v. California
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  49. State v. Wedelstedt
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  50. Cf. Marks v. United
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