Commonwealth v. Dane Entertainment Services, Inc.

After viewing a full length motion picture entitled “Sorority Sweethearts” at a cinema in Chelsea operated by the defendant, two Chelsea police officers, considering the film to be obscene, obtained and executed a search warrant. The officers seized the film and other materials (timetables of the film’s showing, ticket stubs, etc.) from the cinema. A six-person jury in the Boston Municipal Court convicted the defendant under G. L. c. 272, § 29, as appearing in St. 1982, c. 603, § 3,1 of possession of obscene matter with intent to disseminate, and the judge imposed a $10,000 fine and a $2,500…