A man convicted of obscenity for sending sexually explicit text messages to an unknown recipient has successfully argued that his behavior did not meet the legal definition of “obscene material.”

The three-judge Pennsylvania Superior Court panel consisting of Judges Victor Stabile, Deborah Kunselman and Daniel Pellegrini vacated defendant Andrew Thomas Alexander’s obscenity conviction, and took the opportunity in its precedential ruling to clarify what constitutes criminally obscene material.

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