Legal Opinion
City of Belleville v. Morgan
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided May 9, 1978No. 76-268, 76-269, 76-242 consPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Jones
Defendants, Cathleen A. Morgan and Larry R. Kimmel, appeal from convictions for violations of the obscenity ordinance of the city of Belleville. The various charges were prosecuted in three separate cases and heard before the court, sitting without a jury. The appeals from the three have been consolidated in this court for the purpose of review. The cases involved either the sale or the offering for sale of nine different magazines at a certain magazine shop.
Defendant Morgan was found guilty in two cases on the basis of respective sales of the February 1976 issue of Playboy magazine and a…
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- Miller v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by7 opinions
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