‘Little guy’ wins porn conviction - why can’t the feds?
Pat Trueman, special counsel to the Alliance Defense Fund and former chief obscenity prosecutor for the Justice Department, explains why he feels the conviction “reverberates across the nation.”
“You had a porn shop move into Staunton, Virginia — and the prosecutor said, ‘Wait a minute! You’re not going to sell obscenity in my town.’ He brought a prosecution against the business,” Trueman points out. “The business brought in two of the most prominent defense attorneys in the country, and the business owner was convicted.”
Trueman praised local Prosecuting Attorney Raymond Robertson for going after a conviction on simple, hard-core pornography — which, according to Trueman, the Justice Department will not pursue . . .