The 11th Circuit on Thursday heard arguments in a case that involves some of the heaviest issues in the area of obscenity law, such as whether the government should criminalize adult films purchased over the Internet and viewed in the privacy of the home, and whether a Florida jury should apply its own mores to materials available all over the country. But the judges on the panel seemed interested less in hot-button issues than in sentencing matters and a personal problem experienced by a juror during the trial.
October 30, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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Accounts of a trial last year indicate that the jurors in a Tampa, Fla., courthouse had a hard time dealing with a case requiring they decide whether the producer of sexually explicit movies should be convicted of violating federal obscenity statutes.
The case was unusual because federal authorities seldom prosecute makers of films that do not include child pornography.
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