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GRANT v. UNITED STATES

No. 17865.

380 F.2d 748 (1967)

Leon J. GRANT and Walter F. Wissman, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

June 28, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Fleishman, Brock & Fleishman, Hollywood, Cal., for appellants.

Francis C. Whelan, U. S. Atty., Thomas R. Sheridan, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chief Crim. Div., David Y. Smith, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee (on brief).

William M. Byrne, U. S. Atty., William D. Keller, Arthur I. Berman, Asst. U. S. Attys., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee (argued).

Before CHAMBERS, BARNES and JERTBERG, Circuit Judges.

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves an appeal on convictions for using the mails to sell and distribute a collection of rotten books, alleged to be obscene. We characterize the books as obsessed with sex. If they have any literary merit, it is obscure. At best, they are junk.

But under First Amendment decisions that have piled up there does not seem to have been the leer accompanying them required by Ginzburg v. United States, 383...

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