That is great news on the First Amendment front...

Now if only the AHF farce against AIM will be thrown out as well....Perhaps I'm an AIM apologist, so be it then...

Could someone give a brief executive summary regarding what the government was prosecuting here?

I'd like to link this thread over to the legal eagles on the LC Board.

Thanking you in advance.

It was a stupid prosecution brought about by stupid lawyers trying to make names for themselves, IMO.

Essentially, Stagliano was indicted in April 2008 by a federal grand jury with seven different obscenity charges related to operating an obscenity distribution business.  The indictment named two movies: Jay Sin's "Milk Nymphos" and Joey Silvera's "Storm Squirters" as well as Belladonna's movie trailer for "Fetish Fanatic 5" in the indictment. Not only were the charges brought  against him, but against his business John Stagliano Inc. and Evil Angel Productions.

This was a case assaulting First Amendment rights and freedom of speech on the Internet.  The "problem" as the prosecutors saw it was that the films were available on the Internet, and were available in areas where  such material is considered obscene.  So, one of the big questions was how do you define the "Internet community" since the Miller standard for obscenity (based on the 1973 Miller v. California case) requires that community standards be used to define what is obscene.

If you want more details, follow the link below.  The article is an excellent summary of the case, and why it mattered so much.

what upteen thousand porn providers are doing every day nearly everywhere?

He wasn't dealing in kiddie porn or snuff movies or anything really outre?

Our tax dollars at work.  There should be some kind of comeuppance for prosecutors pulling shit like that.

Thanks for the info.  I am going to send a link to this thread to the LC Board now.

http://www.badjojo.com/?q=Milk+Nymphos+stagliano&siteId=&last=all&order=relevance