Opinion ID: 1876720
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Heading: prior florida judicial construction

Text: The unavailability of the new test, however, in the prosecution of an earlier offense, does not preclude a conviction, nor the upholding of the validity of our Florida statute. For Miller has said, As a result, we now confine the permissible scope of such regulation [by the state] to works which depict or describe sexual conduct. That conduct must be specifically defined by the applicable state law, as written or authoritatively construed.  (emphasis added) By clear and continuing judicial declarations we have for many years past authoritatively construed the statutory language of lewd and lascivious. We have said in plain, understandable language that these statutory words proscribe an unlawful indulgence in lust; eager for sexual indulgence; open and public indecency offensive to others. Chesebrough v. State, 255 So.2d 675 (Fla. 1971), cert. den. 406 U.S. 976, 92 S.Ct. 2427, 32 L.Ed.2d 676, catalogues the earlier cases, although it was not decided until December 8, 1971, subsequent to the offense here.