ABSTRACT
RABE v. WASHINGTON, 405 U.S. 313 (1972) Rabe was convicted under Washington's antiobscenity law for showing Carmen Baby, a motion picture and adaptation of the opera, Carmen, which included sexually frank scenes, at his outdoor drive-in theatre where the film could be seen by passing motorists and by teenagers watching from outside the fence surrounding the theatre. The state's Supreme Court affirmed Rabe's conviction. The U.S. Supreme Court in a per curiam opinion authored by Justice Douglas reversed the lower court; Chief Justice Burger wrote a concurring opinion.
