People v. P. J. Video, Inc.
New York Court of Appeals
1DissentJasen, J.
In this obscenity case, the majority holds that the five affidavits in question, which describe the content and character of video movies as graphically depicting successive acts of deviate sexual conduct, including incestuous intercourse, oral and anal sodomy, and onanism, are insufficient, as a matter of law, to support a magistrate’s determination of probable cause that those video movies were obscene. Because I believe that the materials ordered seized by the magistrate were adequately described in the affidavits, as set forth in full in the appendix to this opinion,* 11 would hold that…
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