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Village Books, Inc. v. Arthur Marshall, Jr., State's Attorney for Prince George's County, Maryland

Moreover, on the basis of the Court's own holding in Jenkins v. Georgia, 418 U.S. 153, 94 S. Ct. 2750, 41 L. Ed. 2d 642 (1974), its denial of certiorari is improper. As permitted by Supreme Court Rule 21(1), which provides that the record in a case need not be certified to this Court, the petitioners did not certify the allegedly obscene materials involved in this case. It is plain, therefore, that the Court, which has not requested the certification of those materials, has failed to discharge its admitted responsibility under Jenkins independently to review those materials under the second and third parts of the Miller obscenity test. Nor can it be assumed that the court below performed such a review, since that responsibility was not made clear until Jenkins. Petitioners have thus never been provided the independent judicial review to which the Court held them entitled in Jenkins. At a minimum, the Court should vacate the judgment below and remand for such a review.

Although four of us would grant and reverse, the Justices who join this opinion do not insist that the case be decided on the merits.

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Village Books, Inc. v. Arthur Marshall, Jr., State's Attorney for Prince George's County, Maryland
(Jul 25, 1974)