The New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously struck down a portion of a law criminalizing “portraying a child in a sexually suggestive manner” as unconstitutionally overbroad this week because it bars ”a large swath of material that is neither obscenity nor child pornography.”

Andrew Higginbotham was charged with 16 counts of endangering the welfare of a child under subsection (c) of N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4(b)(1), which makes it a crime “to otherwise depict a child for the purpose of sexual stimulation or gratification of any person who may view the depiction where the depiction does not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value,” according to the opinion filed Wednesday.