| bgcolor="6699FF" | California v. Freeman |
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Supreme Court of California |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | August 25, 1988 |
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| valign="top"|Full case name: | valign="top"|The People v. Harold Freeman |
| valign="top"|Citations: | valign="top"|46 Cal. 3d 419; 758 P.2d 1128; 250 Cal. Rptr. 598; 1988 Cal. LEXIS 171; 15 Media L. Rep. 2072 |
| valign="top"|Prior history: | valign="top"|Defendant convicted, Superior Court, Los Angeles County; conviction affirmed, 233 Cal. Rptr. 510 (Cal. Ct.App. 1987); sentence affirmed, 234 Cal. Rptr. 245 (Cal. Ct.App. 1987); review granted, 734 P.2d 562 (Ca. 1987) |
| valign="top"|Subsequent history: | valign="top"|Stay denied, 488 U.S. 1311 (1989); certiorari denied, 489 U.S. 1017 (1989) | } |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Holding |
| California pandering statute did not criminalize the hiring of actors for nonobscene adult films. |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Court membership |
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| Chief Justice Malcolm Lucas |
| Associate Justices Marcus Kaufman, Stanley Mosk, Allan Broussard, Edward Panelli, David Eagleson, Anthony Kline (Court of Appeal justice, sitting by asignment) | } |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Case opinions |
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| Majority by: Kaufman |
| Joined by: Mosk, Broussard, Panelli, Kline |
| Concurring without separate opinion: Lucas, Eagleson |
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| bgcolor="6699FF" | Laws applied |
| U.S. Const. Amend. I; Cal. Penal Code 266I, 647 |