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Article #104Re: LAWYER AS LAWMAKER COP JUDGE & JURY (Butler Decision online)
From: Morton Goldmacher
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:00
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djones@insight.mcmaster.ca (David Jones) wrote: >In article <4s447k$e20@news3.realtime.net>, David Smith <bladex@bga.com> wrote: >>Morton Goldmacher (alchemy@interlog.com) wrote: >>: >>: The law on what constitutes criminally obscene material is pretty >>: clear and unambiguous. >>I am familiar with the US obscenity ruling, Miller v. California. >> >>What is the Canadian equivalent? What is the test for determining >>whether an item is obscene or not? >The "Butler Decision" is what you want: > R. v. Butler, [1992] 1 S.C.R. 452, 89 D.L.R. (4th) 449-499 >The decision is available online in the Legal Archives >of Electronic Frontier Canada: > http://www.efc.ca/pages/legal.html > http://www.efc.ca/pages/law/court/R.v.Butler.head.html A more applicable S.C.C. decision to the issues surrounding iSTAR's actions is R. v. Jorgenson (1995), easily found by using the Supreme Court's database at the University of Monreal's website. Morton M. Goldmacher Barrister and Solicitor
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc3d0,f8bab2bf5ee053cc X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3d0,public X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,f8bab2bf5ee053cc X-Google-Attributes: gid1083bf,public X-Google-Thread: 103731,f8bab2bf5ee053cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103731,public X-Google-Thread: 114af9,f8bab2bf5ee053cc X-Google-Attributes: gid114af9,public X-Google-Thread: fb1ea,f8bab2bf5ee053cc X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,f8bab2bf5ee053cc X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,f8bab2bf5ee053cc X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,90d13f7a863f087a X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public From: alchemy@interlog.com (Morton Goldmacher) Subject: Re: LAWYER AS LAWMAKER COP JUDGE & JURY (Butler Decision online) Date: 1996/07/16 Message-ID: <4sgdk0$ifi@news.interlog.com> X-Deja-AN: 169129885 distribution: inet references: <31db3548.17224920@nnrp.tor.hookup.net> <4ru3mp$4ap@ns1.vrx.net> <4s17kb$29u@news.interlog.com> <4s447k$e20@news3.realtime.net> <4s6djm$b2m@insight.dcss.mcmaster.ca> organization: Barrister and Solicitor reply-to: alchemy@interlog.com newsgroups: torfree.general,tor.general,mtl.general,van.general,ont.general,bc.general,can.infohighway,can.legal,can.general,soc.culture.usenet,alt.news.media,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.usa,inforamp.donut-shop,inforamp.support,io.general,eye.general,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.org.cpsr.talk