City of Rolling Meadows v. Kohlberg

Plaintiff, City of Rolling Meadows, filed a misdemeanor complaint charging defendants, Jeffrey M. Kohlberg and William A. Farber, with a violation of its obscenity ordinance. A search warrant had been issued and a movie film seized by plaintiff’s police officers. The court suppressed the film and denied plaintiff’s motion for production of the film at trial. Judgment was entered in favor of defendants in a bench trial. This appeal was taken from the judgment. We affirm.

On September 30, 1977, at about 8:30 p.m., plaintiff’s police officers entered defendants’ movie theater and seized the film…