Legal Opinion
United States v. Orito
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 21, 1973No. 70-69PublishedCited by 318 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
Appellee Orito was charged in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin with a violation of 18 U. S. C. § 14621 in that he did “knowingly transport and carry in interstate commerce from San Francisco ... to Milwaukee ... by means of a common carrier, that is, Trans-World Airlines and North Central Airlines, copies of [specified] obscene, lewd, lascivious, and filthy materials . . . .” The materials specified included some 83 reels of film, with as many as eight to 10 copies of some of the films. Appellee moved to dismiss the indictment on the ground that the…
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