Wayne County Prosecutor v. Doerfler

A quotation from the plaintiff’s reply brief to the defendants’ supplemental brief seems particularly appropriate to set the tenor of this appeal, expressing as it does the miasma into which we descend:

“It was once said that the law is a seamless web. The law is nowhere more seamless than in the area of obscenity. While all courts agree that obscenity is not protected by the first and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution, what is obscene or not obscene has traveled the crooked mile from the exposure of the female ankle which was obscene to the exposure of the male and female genitalia…