STATE v. DENTEN CORP.

[No. 112, September Term, 1979.]

288 Md. 178 (1980)

416 A.2d 271

STATE OF MARYLAND v. DENTEN CORPORATION AND THOMAS FRANK

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 9, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan M. Foreman, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and John C. Themelis, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellant.

Burton W. Sandler for appellees.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON and RODOWSKY, JJ.


RODOWSKY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question presented here is the extent to which First Amendment principles developed in connection with the seizure of presumptively protected, but allegedly obscene, communications material are to be engrafted upon the seizure of such material as evidence of the alleged violation of the criminal provisions of the licensing requirements of Maryland's motion picture censorship law.

On October 18, 1978 Baltimore...

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