Legal Opinion

State v. Wedelstedt

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided December 19, 1973No. 1-56081PublishedCited by 75 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

213 N.W.2d 652 (1973)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee,

v.

Edward J. WEDELSTEDT et al., Appellants.

No. 1-56081.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 19, 1973.

Donald M. Reno, Jr., Champaign, Ill., and David D. Mitchell, Cedar Rapids, for appellants.

Richard C. Turner, Atty. Gen., Fred M. Haskins, Asst. Atty. Gen., and David Dutton, County Atty., for appellee.

Heard en banc.

MOORE, Chief Justice.

Defendants-appellants seek reversal of their lower court convictions for violation of Code section 725.3, an obscenity statute, first enacted in 1909. They assert the statute is unconstitutional due to vagueness and…

2Cases cited35 opinions

  1. New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  2. Beck v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  3. Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
  4. Connally v. General Construction Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1926
  5. Miller v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973

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3Cited by75 opinions

  1. Smith v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  2. Auen v. Alcoholic Beverages Division of Iowa Department of CommerceSupreme Court of Iowa · 2004
  3. State v. MonroeSupreme Court of Iowa · 1975
  4. State v. PilcherSupreme Court of Iowa · 1976
  5. State of Iowa v. Curtis Vance HalversonSupreme Court of Iowa · 2015

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