STATE v. RANDALL BOOK CORP.

No. 238, September Term, 1982.

53 Md. App. 30 (1982)

452 A.2d 187

STATE OF MARYLAND v. RANDALL BOOK CORPORATION T/A RYE BOOK STORE.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 8, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maureen O'Ferrall Gardner, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, Sandra A. O'Connor, State's Attorney for Baltimore County, and Anthony R. Gallagher, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore County, on the brief, for appellant.

David N. Kuryk for appellee.

The cause was argued before MORTON, LOWE and ADKINS, JJ.


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

Judge Cullen H. Hormes for the Circuit Court for Baltimore County granted Randall Book Corporation's motion to dismiss charging documents alleging 252 violations of Md. Ann. Code, Art. 27, § 416D, which created the crime of advertising the human body depicting sadomasochistic abuse, sexual conduct or sexual excitement. When that section was enacted,1 the Legislature, for reasons unbeknownst...

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