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Studio Case Jury found guilty
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The Studio raid was in 2013.  Owner has been in jail ever since unable to raise bail.  The many women took felony plea deals long ago for probation instead of prison and many of them testified for the State against the owner.

From AP in national media:
4/7/2017 - PHOENIX (AP) — A man accused of operating a brothel out of his pornography production studio in Phoenix was convicted Friday of operating a house of prostitution, pandering and sexual assault.

xxxxxx insisted he operated a legitimate studio where amateurs could rent cameras, lights and props to create their own sex scenes with the help of a model.

But authorities say it was a cleverly disguised brothel.

Police say female employees who took customers into rooms would insist on shooting a minutes-long video or taking 10 photos with sexual content before the cameras were discarded and they began to have sex.

Prosecutors say the images were taken to guard against future prostitution allegations.

xxxx also was charged with sexually assaulting two women, but was acquitted of one of the two charges.
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Additional report azcentral:
xxxxx said the amateur movie makers paid to rent cameras, lights, props and models to create their desired sex scenes. He said all payments were made to a front desk for the studio time.

Police and prosecutors, however, said that claim was little more than a front for what actually was going on: People were able to pay for women to have sex.

The jury found xxxxx guilty of two counts of conspiracy to commit illegal control of an enterprise, two counts of illegal control of an enterprise, one count of sexual assault, one count of pandering, one count of maintaining a house of prostitution, one count of receiving earnings of prostitution, one count of aggravated assault and one count of sex trafficking.

He was found not guilty of another sexual-assault count.

The sexual-assault charges stemmed from allegations that xxxxxxxl attacked two women who worked at the business.

Court officials said the aggravation phase of the trial will take place prior to sentencing.

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