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THE PEOPLE v. BRUCE

No. 37902.

31 Ill.2d 459 (1964)

202 N.E.2d 497

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Defendant in Error, v. LENNY BRUCE, Plaintiff in Error.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 24, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

MAURICE ROSENFIELD and HARRY KALVEN, JR., and WILLIAM R. MING, JR., all of Chicago, for plaintiff in error.

WILLIAM G. CLARK, Attorney General, of Springfield, and DANIEL P. WARD, State's Attorney, of Chicago, (FRED G. LEACH and E. MICHAEL O'BRIEN, Assistant Attorneys General, and ELMER C. KISSANE, WILLIAM J. MARTIN, and JAMES R. THOMPSON, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel,) for the People.

Judgment reversed.

PER CURIAM:

By an earlier opinion filed June 18, 1964, this court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court of Cook County entered upon a jury verdict finding the defendant herein guilty of giving an obscene performance violative of section 11-20 of the Criminal Code of 1961. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1961, chap. 38, par. 11-20.) On June 22, 1964, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Jacobellis v. State of Ohio,

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