AVN's Mark Kernes on Bruce Taylor and porn-prosecutors [fs]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: MarkKernes () aol com
Message-ID: <92.1e3c2c7.2d444929 () aol com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:18:17 EST
Subject: Re: [Politech] Bruce Taylor on dedicated prosecutors and porn 
convictions [fs]
To: declan () well com, MarkKernes () aol com

In a message dated 1/24/04 10:30:09 AM, declan () well com quotes Bruce Taylor:

<< [ Below are the articles from the Cincinnati Enquirer and Cincinnati
Post. They are about the re-trial of the obscenity  case  by Assistant
Prosecuting Attorney Brad Greenberg from last year where a juror fell
asleep during the showing of the film and defense attorney Louis Sirkin
obtained a mistrial.   A couple years ago, in Brad's first trial with Lou
Sirkin, there was a guilty verdict against a wife whose husband made
hard-core porn pictures of her and others and sold them from the couple's
Website.  These are good examples of how juries respond to the law and the
presentations of good, smart, honest, dedicated prosecutors. Bruce] >>

Always nice to see Mr. Taylor keeping us abreast (if you'll pardon the
expression) on obscenity in the Cincinnati area.

He did manage to leave out, however, the Larry and Jimmy Flynt plea bargain
which resulted in no time for any defendant; the so-far failed attempt to 
retry
the Flynts for breaking agreements from that plea bargain; the Elyse Metcalf
acquittal on three hardcore tapes; and the reversal of a second trial
involving the above mentioned husband and wife (Allan and Jennifer Dute) 
due to the
extreme prejudice displayed by the trial judge -- all of which happened in 
this
same time period.

Bottom line: People, even in Cincinnati, like access to sexual material, and
many of them even understand that the First Amendment makes no exception to
protection for it.

Mark Kernes, Sr. Ed., Adult Video News (the trade magazine of the adult video
industry)

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