Myron M. Amato v. Archie H. Divine, Jr., Sheriff of Rock County, Wisconsin, Respondent
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1Per curiam
We affirmed an order of the district court granting a petition for a writ of habe-as corpus on the basis that the Wisconsin obscenity statute, Wisconsin Statutes, § 944.21(l)(a), under which petitioner was convicted, was unconstitutionally vague. Amato v. Divine, 496 F.2d 441 (7th Cir. 1974). That decision was vacated and re manded by the United States Supreme Court, 419 U.S. 1014, 95 S.Ct. 487, 42 L.Ed.2d 286 (1974), for further consideration in light of Hamling v. United States, 418 U.S. 87, 94 S.Ct. 2887, 41 L.Ed.2d 590 (1974) and State ex rel. Chobot v. Circuit Court, 61 Wis.2d 354, 212…
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