Jenkins v. Georgia
United States Supreme Court
418 U.S. 153 (1974)
Relevant factsFree
Jenkins (defendant) was convicted in Georgia of distributing obscene material for showing the film "Carnal Knowledge." The state supreme court affirmed his conviction, and Jenkins petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for review, applying the recently-decided Miller v. California obscenity standard.
IssueFree
Whether material that does not depict sexual conduct in a patently offensive way falls outside the protections of the First and Fourteenth Amendments as obscenity.