Miller v. California (1973)

In 1973, Miller was charged of publicly advertising his own explicit sexual and adult books. Charged by the State of California, Miller's case was brought to the Supreme Court and with the help of Chief Justice Warren Burger, decided a 5 to 4 vote in California's favor.

I believe that the decision made by the Supreme Court was a step in the right direction. We, as older citizens in our community, should be conscious of the mature material that can be exposed too early to the youth. In order to fix small loopholes in our system that might make a case, such as this one, occur again, Chief Justice Warren Burger helped create three new Guidelines

1. would the average person, "applying contemporary community standard," find that a work, when viewed as a whole appealed to "prurient interest"?

2. does the work depict or describe certain specifically defined sexual conduct in a patently offensive way?

3. does the work lack "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value"?

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These new guidelines are absolutely necessary in today's America. Passing illicit material to those who have no intention or do not want to read or see the material is completely unorthodox. Not considering the families with children, it could be highly offensive to individuals' religion or personal morals.