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Commonwealth v. Oakes

Citations

  • 518 N.E.2d 836
  • 401 Mass. 602
  • 1988 Mass. LEXIS 29

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  • defendant was prosecuted for taking provocative photographs of his minor stepdaughter while she was nude from the waist up
  • prior version of G.L.c. 272, §29A, which punished knowingly permitting a minor to pose in a state of nudity, without any element of lascivious intent, was over-broad where it would make criminal a parent’s photographing of naked one-year-old in pool

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Judges: Hennessey, Wilkins, Lucos, Abrams, Nolan, Lynch, O'Connor

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