Commonwealth v. Oakes

*93Abrams, J.

After this court’s opinion in Commonwealth v. Oakes, 401 Mass. 602 (1988), reversing the defendant’s conviction for violation of G. L. c. 272, § 29A (1986 ed.),1 because of constitutional overbreadth under the First Amendment, the Legislature amended G. L. c. 272, § 29A.2 As a result of the legislative amendment to G. L. c. 272, § 29A, and after oral argument, a plurality of the United States Supreme Court decided that the overbreadth issue was moot and remanded the case to us for further proceedings on the remaining “live” issue, an as-applied Federal constitutional attack on the…