Court Opinion

ID: 9425417
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:14:38.789198+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:55.415580
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*507Mr. Justice Brennan,
with whom Mr. Justice Stewart and Mr. Justice Marshall join, concurring in the judgment.
We granted certiorari to consider the holding of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky that the Constitution does not require an adversary hearing on obscenity prior to the seizure of reels of film, where the seizure is incident to the arrest of the manager of a drive-in movie theater. 473 S. W. 2d 814 (1971). The statute under which the prosecution was brought* is, in my view, unconstitutionally overbroad and therefore invalid on its face. See my dissent in Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton, ante, p. 73. I would therefore reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals and remand the case for further proceedings not inconsistent with my dissenting opinion in Slaton.

Ky. Rev. Stat. § 436.101 (2) provides in part that
“Any person who, having knowledge of the obscenity thereof, sends or causes to be sent, or brings or causes to be brought, into this state for sale or distribution, or in this state prepares, publishes, prints, exhibits, distributes, or offers to distribute, or has in his possession with intent to distribute or to exhibit or offer to distribute, any obscene matter is punishable by fine of not more than §1,000 ... or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six (6) months . . .