The state’s highest court has tossed out a child pornography case against a convicted child rapist who had photocopies of pictures of naked children from a National Geographic magazine, a sociology textbook, and a naturist catalogue in his state prison cell. Full Article
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This is totally insane! I think federal case law is screwed up; BIG TIME! The Norfolk grand jury found the images lewd, so why aren’t they going after Nat-Geo?
“A Norfolk County grand jury found that the images possessed by Rex were lewd, and the case law prior to this suggested strongly that decision was appropriately made by a jury of citizens.’’
The Calif Penal code does not state nudity itself is obscene. But our courts always says all nudity is obscene. If CA wants all nudity to be deemed obscene the penal code should state that.