Johansen v. California
98 S. Ct. 646
SCOTUS
1977
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Lead Opinion

App. Dept., Super. Ct. Cal., County of Los Angeles. Certiorari denied.





Dissenting Opinion

Mr. Justice Brennan, with whom Mr. Justice Stewart and Mr. Justice Marshall join,

dissenting.

Petitioner was convicted in the Whittier Municipal Court of exhibiting obscene materials in violation of Cal. Penal Code Ann. § 311.2 (West 1970), and his conviction was affirmed in an unpublished decision by the Appellate Department of the Los Angeles County Superior Court. I would reverse the conviction. I adhere to my view expressed in Miller v. California, 413 U. S. 15 (1973), that this statute is “unconstitutionally overbroad, and therefore invalid on its face.” Id., at 47 (Brennan, J., dissenting). See also Kuhns v. California, 431 U. S. 973 (1977) (Brennan, J., dissenting); Splawn v. California, 431 U. S. 595, 601 (1977) (Brennan, J., dissenting) ; Pendleton v. California, 423 U. S. 1068 (1976) (Brennan, J., dissenting); Sandquist v. California, 423 U. S. 900, 901 (1975) (Brennan, J., dissenting); Tobalina v. California, 419 U. S. 926 (1974) (Brennan, J., dissenting); Kaplan v. California, 419 U. S. 915 (1974) (Brennan, J., dissenting); Blank v. California, 419 U. S. 913 (1974) (Brennan, J., dissenting).