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Hotchkiss recently pleaded guilty to child pornography charges in federal court, according to a news release from state police. Bedwell was issued an appearance ticket for Jefferson County Court ...
A new Ohio bill would allow prosecutors to charge school librarians with a felony if children access an "obscene" book or movie. Current Ohio law prohibits selling and distributing "obscene ...
Rep. Nancy Mace accused her ex-fiancé and three business partners of committing “depraved” sexual crimes against herself and a dozen other women — including underage girls — in explosive ...
Adoption of obscenity laws in the United States at the federal level in 1873 was largely due to the efforts of Anthony Comstock, who created and led the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. Comstock's intense efforts led to the passage of an anti-obscenity statute known as the Comstock Act which made it a crime to distribute "obscene ...
Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court clarifying the legal definition of obscenity as material that lacks "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value". [1]
The Miller test, also called the three-prong obscenity test, is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene, in which case it is not protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and can be prohibited.
Charles E. Cawley, 43, was indicted in December with three counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor, all second-degree felonies. He was sentenced to an aggregate indefinite term of 8 to 12 ...
An obscenity is any utterance or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time. [1] ... In New Zealand, screening of Deep Throat (1972) was only ...