Legal Opinion
United States v. Pryba
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided April 2, 1970No. Crim. 1573-69PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
PRATT, District Judge.
Defendants are charged in a two-count indictment with violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1462 and 22 D.C.Code § 2001(a) (1) (E) (Supp. II, 1969). The first statute makes it a crime knowingly to receive from a common carrier obscene material 1 shipped in interstate commerce. The second prohibits knowing possession of obscene matter with the intent to disseminate such matter.
Defendants have filed a motion to suppress alleging, inter alia, that an adversary judicial proceeding should have been held prior to the seizure of the material alleged to be obscene for a…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Aguilar v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Spinelli v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- A Quantity of Copies of Books v. KansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Samuel Gold, Howard Guy Halbett, John Frank Fusco v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1967
- Bethview Amusement Corp. v. CahnCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1969
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3Cited by15 opinions
- United States v. Dennis E. PrybaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1974
- United States v. Ferris J. Alexander and Edward J. AlexanderCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1970
- State v. MorrisOhio Supreme Court · 1975
- Hanby v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1970
- Kaplan v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1971
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