People v. Potwora
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtCardamone, J.
We are called upon first to decide whether the evidence before the Grand Jury was sufficient to sustain the indictment on the obscenity counts and, second, whether it was sufficient to sustain the conspiracy count.
The defendant, Francis Potwora, the manager of the Imperial News Company, a wholesale book distributor in Buffalo, New York, was indicted by the Erie County Grand Jury on August 6, 1971 charged with obscenity in the first degree, obscenity in the second degree and conspiracy in the third degree. These indictments arose from the sale and distribution of 15 allegedly pornographic…
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