Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on GeniusWritten by the attorney who argued and won the Tropic of Cancer case before the Supreme Court, this is a riveting book about more than the freedom of expressions; it is about a profound, insoluble, and ongoing crisis within our culture that guarantees unprecedented civil liberties but asks us to suppress our deepest human impulses. |
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Page 52
... jury who abhorred to hear Emile Zola's words . Were I not the only Irishman living or dead who cannot make a speech , I should have had no difficulty in getting a verdict of acquittal from Vizetelly's jury . . . . I looked upon Henry ...
... jury who abhorred to hear Emile Zola's words . Were I not the only Irishman living or dead who cannot make a speech , I should have had no difficulty in getting a verdict of acquittal from Vizetelly's jury . . . . I looked upon Henry ...
Page 303
... jury . Only isolated parts were read to the jury . There was only one copy that went into the jury room . It was a physical impossibility for the jury to have read that book in the jury room . It is our contention that * The private ...
... jury . Only isolated parts were read to the jury . There was only one copy that went into the jury room . It was a physical impossibility for the jury to have read that book in the jury room . It is our contention that * The private ...
Page 461
... jury of his peers failed , the judges ruling that there was no statutory or constitutional right to a jury trial in Bruce's misdemeanor case . The maximum punishment for a single misdemeanor offense at that time was a year in jail ...
... jury of his peers failed , the judges ruling that there was no statutory or constitutional right to a jury trial in Bruce's misdemeanor case . The maximum punishment for a single misdemeanor offense at that time was a year in jail ...
Contents
Fuck Up Love | 20 |
A Judicial Murder | 40 |
A SermonontheMountof Venus | 54 |
Copyright | |
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Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius Edward DeGrazia No preview available - 1993 |
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