Case ID: ny-2d_17/html/0444-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Norman Cohen, Defendant, and Carl Berkowitz, Appellant.
    Argued November 29,1965;
    decided December 30, 1965.
    
      
      Ralph J. Schwarz, Jr., Stanley Hendricks and Albert L. Richter for appellant.
    
      Frank S. Hogan, District Attorney (Robert B. Sperling and H. Richard Uviller of counsel), for respondent.
   Judgment reversed and information dismissed upon the ground that the pictures in the record are not obscene within the holdings of People v. Moran (15 N Y 2d 926); People v. Revo (15 N Y 2d 743); Larkin v. G. I. Distrs. (14 N Y 2d 869) ; People v. Richmond County News (9 N Y 2d 578).

Concur: Judges Dye, Fuld, Van Voorhis and Bergan. Chief Judge Desmond and Judges Burke and Scileppi dissent and vote to affirm (People v. Cobert, 15 N Y 2d 1020 ; People v. Peskin, 16 N Y 2d 511).