Does Hurt have to reverse the finding that a search warrant describing the items seized as "obscene, lewd, lascivious or indecent" is invalid?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Hurt, 808 F.2d 707 (9th Cir. 1987):

Hurt asserts that we must reverse this matter because the description of the items to be seized was "very similar" to the warrant found invalid in our decision in United States v. Hale, 784 F.2d 1465 (9th Cir.1986). We disagree. Hale is clearly distinguishable. In Hale, we concluded that a warrant describing the items to be seized as "obscene, lewd, lascivious, or indecent" is "too general to support the seizure of material that was, at the time of the seizure, arguably protected by the first amendment." Id. at 1469.

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