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Article #125Re: LAWYER AS LAWMAKER COP JUDGE & JURY (Butler Decision online)
From: David Jones
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <4s447k$e20@news3.realtime.net>, David Smith <bladex@bga.com> wrote: >Morton Goldmacher (alchemy@interlog.com) wrote: >: >: The law on what constitutes criminally obscene material is pretty >: clear and unambiguous. >I am familiar with the US obscenity ruling, Miller v. California. > >What is the Canadian equivalent? What is the test for determining >whether an item is obscene or not? The "Butler Decision" is what you want: R. v. Butler, [1992] 1 S.C.R. 452, 89 D.L.R. (4th) 449-499 The decision is available online in the Legal Archives of Electronic Frontier Canada: http://www.efc.ca/pages/legal.html http://www.efc.ca/pages/law/court/R.v.Butler.head.html
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc3d0,f8bab2bf5ee053cc X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3d0,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,90d13f7a863f087a X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,f8bab2bf5ee053cc X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,f8bab2bf5ee053cc X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public X-Google-Thread: 103731,f8bab2bf5ee053cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103731,public X-Google-Thread: 114af9,f8bab2bf5ee053cc X-Google-Attributes: gid114af9,public X-Google-Thread: fb1ea,f8bab2bf5ee053cc X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,f8bab2bf5ee053cc X-Google-Attributes: gid1083bf,public From: djones@insight.mcmaster.ca (David Jones) Subject: Re: LAWYER AS LAWMAKER COP JUDGE & JURY (Butler Decision online) Date: 1996/07/12 Message-ID: <4s6djm$b2m@insight.dcss.mcmaster.ca> X-Deja-AN: 168073533 distribution: inet references: <31db3548.17224920@nnrp.tor.hookup.net> <4ru3mp$4ap@ns1.vrx.net> <4s17kb$29u@news.interlog.com> <4s447k$e20@news3.realtime.net> organization: McMaster University, Computational Vision Laboratory 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