Court Opinion

ID: 9663774
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 23:50:20.124064+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:56.310188
License: Public Domain

McCown, J.,
concurring in result only.
I concur fully that the films involved here are hardcore pornography without any redeeming social value, and that the conviction should be affirmed.
I emphatically do not join in the assertions that the federal courts have gone to great lengths to protect malefactors at the expense of public need for protection, and that public obscenity has been sanctioned and permissiveness engendered in our society by the United States Supreme Court. Such statements, whether dicta or not, lend support to unjustified and misinformed public criticism of all courts and magnify misunderstanding between state and federal courts.
Newton, J., accentuatus.
No court, or judicial decision, is sacrosanct. Sycophantic agreement, or blind obeisance, restraining constructive criticism can only perpetuate errors.