answer the following question based on the reading:

1. what rule do you see in Miller test?
2. What rules do you see in Pope v. Illinois?
3. Is the connected to "morales"
4. Does the definition of obscenity help clarify the law for you as applied in the Pope v. Illinois case? Explain.
   

OBSCENITY RULES Hicklin Test: * from English Common Law . established IN 1868 * replaced by Roth in 1957 " work was obscene if "it had the tendency to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences" Roth Test: " standard for evaluating obscenity cases from 1957-1973 . "Material is obscene if the average person finds the dominant theme appeals to prurient interests and is without redeeming social importance" " "utterly without..." was a modification to the case law in 1966 from the Memoirs v. Massachusetts case. Miller Test: * 1973 case which further clarified the obscenity rule * 3 part standard used to determine if a state or local obscenity rule is constitutional. . Rule States: 1. The average person, applying contemporary community standards, finds the dominant theme appeals on a whole to prurient interests. 2. The material depicts in a patently offensive was sexual conduct specifically defined by a state law.3. The work as, a whole, lacks serious artistic, literary, political or scientific value. . In 1987 Pope v. Illinois modified prong 1 to be a "reasonable person" standard instead of the "average person" standard