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A 6 page paper that examines three different areas of law. The paper examines two 1957 court cases that defined obscenity, the definition of false pretenses and larceny of trick, and then civil and criminal trespassing. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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various forms of each type of crime and varying conditions. And, when a case goes before the court in an attempt to further define one aspect of the law or
another, issues become even more complex. The following paper examines three different topics in law. The first topic discusses two court cases in 1957 that helped define obscenity. The second
topic is false pretenses and larceny of trick. The last topic is civil and criminal trespass. Obscenity In 1957 there were two court cases that helped to define
what is considered obscenity. One court case was Roth v United States and the other case involved a poem titled "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg. This trial was called the obscenity
trial and was a trial wherein the publisher of the poetry was taken to court, not the author of the poem. The publisher, or the man who ran the store
that published the work, was Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In both of these cases the condition arose wherein it was ruled that obscenity is not something that is Constitutionally protected, and
that if something has value it cannot really be considered obscene. The case of Roth v United States is the case that ruled "obscenity is not constitutionally protected" in new
light and the case of Howl was essentially thrown out of court because the poem was deemed socially valuable in many respects (Mink, 2005).
In terms of the history it is noted that "Following common-law principles, colonial governments treated obscenity as an indictable offense when it was linked to other crimes, such
as blasphemy and sedition" (Mink, 2005). In the 19th century obscenity was defined quite broadly and was deemed applicable to anything that was filthy or disgusting or incredibly repugnant in
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