D.C. Jury To Watch Porn

In a 1964 ruling, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously wrote that while hard-core pornography was difficult to define, I know it when I see it. And pretty soon, a D.C. jury will be seeing it.

The federal trial against John Stagliano of Evil Angel Productions on multiple obscenity counts begins Tuesday. Jurors will have to view two of Evil Angels films and a trailer for a third. Jamin Raskin of American University's law school, quoted by the Washington Examiner, calls the trial kind of a jury-based movie review. The jury becomes a little focus group on how shocked, scandalized and grossed out people are.

David Hudson of the First Amendment Center says the case could be significant, since Staglianos films are not known for being on the extremes of adult fare. Rather, theyre pretty standard stuff by pay-per-view and instant download standards. Raskin observes that at one time, Playboy magazine was considered outside the norm, but now many see it as mainstream.

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