Legal Opinion
Amato v. Divine
District Court, W.D. Wisconsin
Decided February 22, 1973No. Nos. 72-C-281, 72-C-282PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION and ORDER
JAMES E. DOYLE, District Judge.
These are two petitions for writs of habeas corpus by petitioners convicted in a state court for the sale of obscene materials. Among the contentions which petitioners advance in support of the petition is that the materials for which they were convicted are, as a matter of law, not obscene. In support of this argument petitioners have submitted as evidence four magazines which the Supreme Court has held to be not obscene and which petitioners contend are similar to the magazines involved in the present case.
The parties have stipulated that the…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- A Book Named "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" v. Attorney General of MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- United States v. Thirty-Seven (37) PhotographsSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- United States v. ReidelSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Redrup v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Myron M. Amato v. Archie H. Divine, Jr., Sheriff of Rock County, Wisconsin, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1977
- United States v. B & H DIST. CORP.District Court, W.D. Wisconsin · 1974