Court Opinion

ID: 9428213
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:23:09.750324+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:12.312203
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Justice Brennan,
with whom Justice Marshall joins, concurring in part and dissenting in part.
While I agree with the Court that “there is a clear possibility of conflict of interest” shown on this record, ante, at 267, *275and that the Court has the option to remand on this issue, I would nevertheless finally dispose of this case. That can be done, as Justice White concludes, by reversing the judgment of the Georgia Court of Appeals, for the reason that Tate v. Short, 401 U. S. 395 (1971), compels that conclusion. I would, however, reverse the conviction for distributing obscene materials in violation of Ga. Code § 26-2101 (1978) under the view I have frequently expressed, and to which I adhere, that such an obscenity statute is facially unconstitutional. See Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton, 413 U. S. 49, 73, 113 (1973) (Brennan, J., dissenting); McKinney v. Alabama, 424 U. S. 669, 678 (1976) (separate opinion of Brennan, J.).