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394 Mich. 79

228 N.W.2d 384

People v. Bloss

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided April 29, 1975

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1975-04-29

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently November 1975

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““We are divided as to whether such statutes can properly be construed by us without further legislative expression as proscribing the dissemination of ‘obscene’ material to consenting adults.” 394 Mich, at 81 , 228 N.W.2d at 385 .”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Llewelyn v. Oakland County Prosecutor's Office

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Decided 1975-04-29

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Per Curiam.

¶1 On June 25, 1973, the United States Supreme Court vacated our earlier judgment in People v Bloss, 388 Mich 409; 201 NW2d 806 (1972). The Court remanded Bloss to us for further consideration in light of several new opinions that it issued on the subject of obscenity. 1

¶2*81 We are persuaded that defendant’s conviction cannot stand for the reason that at the time he did the act complained of this Court had not construed the obscenity statute 2 (as permitted in Miller) to proscribe such conduct.

¶3 We are unanimously of the opinion that the Michigan statutes regulating the dissemination of "obscene” material as applied to juveniles and unconsenting adults are valid and enforceable.

¶4 We are divided as to whether such statutes can properly be construed by us without further legislative expression as proscribing the dissemination of "obscene” material to consenting adults. See Const 1963, art 1, § 5.

¶5 The conviction is reversed and the defendant is discharged.

T. G. Kavanagh, C. J., and Swainson, Williams, Levin, and M. S. Coleman, JJ., concurred. J. W. Fitzgerald, J., and the late Justice T. M. Kavanagh took no part in the decision of this case.
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