Appellate Practice
Jun. 4, 2013
Warden ordered to hand over erotic novel to inmate
Overturning a superior court decision, an appeals court panel determined that a book deemed obscene and confiscated by prison authorities has literary value, and that the inmate should be allowed to read it.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A state appeals court has demanded that a prison warden give a previously confiscated erotica novel to an inmate after finding the book not obscene and having literary merit. A three-judge panel last week ordered authorities at Pelican Bay State Prison, near Crescent City, to deliver the book "The Silver Crown" to inmate Andres Martinez.
Martinez ordered the book, authored by Mathilde M...
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