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Felton v. Pensacola, 390 U.S. 340 (1968)
Felton v. Pensacola, 390 U.S. 340 (1968)
340
88 S.Ct. 1098
19 L.Ed.2d 1220
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted and the judgment of the District
Court of Appeal of Florida, First District, is reversed. Redrup v. State of New
York, 386 U.S. 767, 87 S.Ct. 1414, 18 L.Ed.2d 515.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE would grant the petition and reverse because of the
failure of the trial court to adhere to the standard for judging obscenity
announced in Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 77 S.Ct. 1304, 1 L.Ed.2d
1498.
Mr. Justice HARLAN would affirm the judgment of the state court upon the
premises stated in his separate opinion in Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476,
496, 77 S.Ct. 1304, 1 L.Ed.2d 1498 and his dissenting opinion in A Book
Named 'John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure' v. Attorney General
of Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413, 455, 86 S.Ct. 975, 16 L.Ed.2d 1.