ABSTRACT
Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), was one of a group of cases the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed in a reexamination of standards enunciated in earlier cases defining obscenity, which the Court had long held was not entitled to protection under the right to free speech as outlined in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and as also applied to the states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The difficult issue in these cases has been how to judge whether certain expression is obscene.
