A Marshall DVD distribution company screened the movies it sent out to specifically avoid shipping the kinds of obscene material it mistakenly shipped to Erie in 2007, a lawyer for the company said yesterday in federal court. This isn't a company that is in the business of trying to push the envelope of the First Amendment," said Gary Zimmerman, attorney for Right Ascension Inc.
... children from exposure to pornographic material on the Internet-ran afoul of the First Amendment i... knowing transmission over the Internet of obscene or indecent messages to any recipient under 18 yea... 1461, the federal statute prohibiting the mailing of obscene material. Although this statute does no...
A man who admitted to using the U.S. mail to deliver depictions of bestiality and other obscene material was sentenced to 18 months in prison. S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin on Monday also ordered Harold Foote Hoffman II, of Nitro, to forfeit to the federal government any profits he earned and any property connected to his production and transmission of obscene material.
A federal judge today fined a Marshall DVD distribution company $75,000 and placed it on two years' probation for mailing obscene material. John Darcangelo, 33, owner and CEO of Right Ascension Inc., agreed to have his company plead guilty to the charge and asked for an immediate sentencing. Right Ascension does business as Adult DVD Empire.
Two cousins from Ohio received matching sentences in federal court Thursday for distributing an adult film that government officials deemed obscene. Sami Harb, 44, and Michael Harb, 36, were indicted in June 2003 on three counts of engaging in a business of selling or transferring obscene material and three counts of mailing obscene material. The charges were tied to three films that were described in court documents as "sadistic and masochistic.
WASHINGTON, July 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Clarence Thomas Gartman, 35, and his brother-in-law, former Houston police officer Brent Alan McDowell, 37, were sentenced today in Dallas, announced Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher for the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Richard B. Roper for the Northern District of Texas. The Honorable U.S. Senior District Judge Barefoot Sanders sentenced Gartman to 34 months in prison and McDowell to 30 months in prison. Both Gartman and McDowell were ordered to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on Aug. 24. Following a five-day jury trial in Dallas in March 2006, Gartman and McDowell were each found guilty of one count of Mailing Obscene Material and Aiding and Abetting. Gartman was found guilty of an additional count of Conspiracy to Mail Obscen...
Attorneys for two Ohio men facing federal charges in Salt Lake City for peddling obscene DVD adult movies to Utah customers have accused the U.S. Department of Justice of pushing a political agenda. Sami R. Harb, 42, and his cousin, Michael Harb, 34, both owners of the Cincinnati-based online company Movies by Mail, appeared in federal court in Salt Lake City on Thursday to enter pleas of not guilty to six counts of selling obscene material and mailing obscene material. They face a maximum of five and 10 years in federal prison if found guilty.
... and sentence for aiding and abetting the mailing of obscene material, in violation of 18U.S.C. Â...
This research examines the prosecutions of four noted libertarians: free love advocate Ezra Heywood; Dr. Edward Bond Foote, a well-known New York physician and medical publisher; two prominent free thought publishers, DeRobigne M. Bennett and Moses Harman; and the subsequent libertarian campaign for broad First Amendment protection for all citizens which ensued from their arrests and prosecutions. That individuals were putting forth a libertarian philosophy of free expression in the 1870s (albeit largely under the auspices of individual rights rather than the later interpretation of social benefits), demonstrates the formative period of modern First Amendment development occurred decades earlier than is often acknowledged. The research argues that these liberal thinkers, all too cogniza...
... (Mass.) jail and fined $100 for sending obscene literature through the mail, vice fighter Anthony ... he viewed as censorship, was tried for mailing copies of an anti-marriage, pro-feminist pamphlet ... he perceived to be obscene and immoral material.35 The vice fighter believed the devil was everywh...
Two plead not guilty in golf club beating death NIAGARA FALLS -- Two teenagers accused of fatally beating a 46- year-old man with a golf club pleaded not guilty Friday morning in City Court.
...A man wanted by the state of Florida for mailing obscene material was arrested Wednesday at the Pea...
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