ATLANTA — 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.
At one point, according to briefs, an alternate juror sent a note to the judge requesting that the jury be asked to view only excerpts of the movies. The jury engaged in what’s been termed by press accounts and a defense appellate brief as emotional deliberations, with the jurors reporting at one point that they were deadlocked on several of the counts — before ultimately convicting on all of them.
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