Abstract
It has been over fifteen years since the Supreme Court embarked on its precarious course of determining the Constitutional boundaries for control of obscenity by the state and federal governments. The Court's first attempt to define the meaning of obscenity and ultimately determine the Constitutional protection afforded this expression was in Roth v. United States. What has followed can only be characterized as a series of irreconcilable conflicts and discrepancies that have left the law in this area in total confusion. Recently, the Court in Miller v. California has again attempted to provide "concrete guidelines to isolate 'hard core' pornography from expressions protected by the first amendment." Unfortunately, this optimism may be premature when this decision is examined in light of past experience.
Recommended Citation
Wolfe, Stacy E.
(1974)
"Obscenity - New First Amendment Standards; Miller v. California,"
Akron Law Review: Vol. 7:
Iss.
1, Article 13.
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