RANDALL BOOK CORP. v. STATE

No. 52, September Term, 1985.

64 Md. App. 589 (1985)

497 A.2d 1174

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

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

October 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David N. Kuryk, Baltimore, for appellant.

Richard B. Rosenblatt, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Sandra A. O'Connor, State's Atty. for Baltimore County, and Anthony Gallagher, Asst. State's Atty. for Baltimore County, Towson, on brief), for appellee.

Argued before WEANT and BLOOM, JJ., and JAMES S. GETTY, Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.


BLOOM, Judge.

This "dirty books" case, as Horace Rumpole (Rumpole of the Bailey) might describe it,1 involves an interplay between the First and Fourth Amendments to the United States Constitution. It also tends to demonstrate, in a negative manner, the wisdom of an observation made by the poet Hesiod some twenty-six centuries ago, that "right timing is in all things the most important factor."2

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