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STATE v. FRANZONE

Nos. 65492 to 65494 and 65525.

384 So.2d 409 (1980)

STATE of Louisiana v. Vincent F. FRANZONE. STATE of Louisiana v. Michael S. CENTANNI.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

May 19, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., John M. Mamoulides, Dist. Atty., Abbott J. Reeves, W. C. Douglas Friederichsen, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellant in Nos. 65492 to 65494 and for plaintiff-relator in No. 65525.

Samuel W. Ethridge, Kenner, for defendant-appellee in Nos. 65492 to 65494.

Michael Silvers, Silvers & Tanet, New Orleans, for defendant-respondent in No. 65525.

DENNIS, Justice.*

In these cases the state appealed from judgments below which quashed criminal prosecutions and declared unconstitutional, as invalid prior restraints of expression, criminal statutes which forbid property owners to knowingly lease or allow use of premises for obscenity. We affirm. Prosecution of property owners for leasing or allowing premises to be used for obscenity, in the absence of procedural safeguards designed...

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