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" In determining what is obscene material, the basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: (a) whether the "average person, applying contemporary community standards" would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; (b)... "
Revision of the Federal Criminal Code: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ... - Page 2939
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice - 1982 - 5579 pages
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 431

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1976 - 1102 pages
...written or authoritatively construed. . . . "The basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: ... (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently...conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law . . . ." 413 US, at 24. On the following page, the Court gives examples of such "specific" definitions....
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 413

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1975 - 954 pages
...representation of sexual matters," ibid., the test adopted today requires that the material describe, "in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law." Miller v. California, ante, at 24. The third component of the Memoirs test is that the material must...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 424

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1977 - 1192 pages
...standards' would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest . . . [and] describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct...specifically defined by the applicable state law." Miller v. California, supra, at 24 (emphasis supplied). Community standards are inherently in a state...
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Sexual Exploitation of Children: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Select ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education - 1977 - 484 pages
...would find that the dominant theme of the material, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest, whether the work depicts or describes in a patently offensive way sexual conduct specifically described — defined — by the applicable State law, and whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks...
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Sexual Exploitation of Children: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Crime ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime - 1977 - 500 pages
...community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; and (b) the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined as, (1) patently offensive representations or descriptions of ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted,...
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Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation: Hearings ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency - 1978 - 168 pages
...publication of the obscene. (b) For purposes of this Article any material is obscene if : (1) The material depicts or describes in a patently offensive way sexual conduct specifically defined by subsection (c) of this section ; and (2) The average person applying contemporary statewide community...
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Aimee's Law, Matthew's Law, Two Strikes and You're Out Child Protection Act ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime - 2000 - 104 pages
...contemporary community standards would find the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; 2) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct; and 3) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific...
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Historic U.S. Court Cases: An Encyclopedia, Volume 2

John W. Johnson - 2001 - 536 pages
...standards', would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest ...; (b) ... the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive...specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) . . . the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."...
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The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions

Kermit L. Hall - 1999 - 450 pages
...taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; [and] (b) the work deMilligan, Ex parte D 189 picts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual...specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value" (p. 25)....
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106-2 Hearing: Aimee's Law, Matthew's Law, Two Strikes And You're Out Child ...

2001 - 136 pages
...contemporary community standards would find the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; 2) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct; and 3) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific...
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