The Illustrated Government Report

A publisher put out an illustrated version of an official government report on pornography. To advertise it, he and his associates mailed a brochure to more than fifty thousand people across the country. The brochure carried sexually explicit photographs showing various sex acts. Federal law makes it a crime to send obscene matter through the mail. The accused say the law is too vague, that the jury was wrongly told to apply a national standard, and that the government did not prove they knew the material was obscene.