Legal Opinion
State v. Martin
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided June 11, 1965No. File Nos. CR 2-14187, CR 2-14188PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJacobs, J.
The dispositive issue on this appeal is whether the four nudist magazines,2 taken as a whole, may, under permissible constitutional standards, be deemed to go substantially beyond customary limits of candor, that is to say, whether they are obscene in the statutory sense3 and therefore not within the protection contained in the first and fourteenth amendments to the federal constitution and in 5 and 6 of article first of the Connecticut constitution. See Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 485; State v. Sul, 146 Conn. 78, 85; State v. Andrews, 150 Conn. 92, 97. Whether this question is…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. DaySupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Zeitlin v. ArneberghCalifornia Supreme Court · 1963
- Sunshine Book Co. v. SummerfieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
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3Cited by2 opinions
- State v. Keyhole Publishing Co.Connecticut Appellate Court · 1965
- State v. OnoratoConnecticut Appellate Court · 1965