Sentences with phrase «obscenity prosecutions»

The three panelists talked mostly about obscenity prosecutions, federal record - keeping requirements and zoning laws.

The effect of these broad judgments has been to limit obscenity prosecutions to hard - core porn.

Is everyone involved really going to be OK with all of this - especially since the law specifically notes that the records may be used as evidence in a federal obscenity prosecution?

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I assume this practice has very practical benefits — for one thing, it might help stave off prosecution for obscenity or sex - trafficking.

I assume this custom has very practical benefits — for one thing, it might help stave off prosecution for obscenity or sex - trafficking.

Officers met gallery bosses and are also understood to have consulted the Crown Prosecution Service as to whether the image broke obscenity laws.

How would I feel about a client seeing me breaking bread with the same prosecutor or cop who is trying to get my client locked up, particularly in instances where I feel the prosecution is based on false evidence, an effort to obtain a disproportionately severe sentence, or a law that I feel should be stricken or heavily decriminalized in the first place (e.g., I want the legalization of marijuana, prostitution, gambling, criminal libel and obscenity and the heavy decriminalization of all other drugs)?

The crime comics provision was only half - heartedly enforced: there were a handful of prosecutions through the 1950s, but they seemed to have dropped away by the 1960s — though as late as the 1980s, a «crime comics» charge would occasionally be laid (in one case in the late 80s from Calgary, the charge was eventually changed to an obscenity charge).