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Legal Citation: 495 U.S. 103 (1990)

Appellant
Clyde Osborne

Appellee
State of Ohio

Appellant's Claim
That an Ohio law banning the possession of child pornography violated the First Amendment.

Chief Lawyer for Appellant
S. Adele Shank

Chief Lawyer for Appellee
Ronald J. O'Brien

Justices for the Court
Harry A. Blackmun, Anthony M. Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor, William H. Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, Byron R. White (writing for the Court)

Justices Dissenting
William J. Brennan, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, John Paul Stevens

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
18 April 1990

Decision
The Court upheld the constitutionality of the Ohio law, but ordered Osborne to be retried because of procedural errors during the trial.

Significance
The Court...