Motion To Dismiss Under Consideration In Max Hardcore Trial
Judge Will Decide Tomorrow Which Counts Stay And Which Go
By: Mark Kernes
TAMPA - The prosecution rested its case in Max Hardcore's federal obscenity trial late this afternoon, and Judge Susan C. Bucklew asked for the defendants' arguments on a "Rule 29 motion," otherwise known as a "motion to dismiss."
It had been a relatively uneventful day up to that point. The defense had played the final unplayed segments of two charged videos, Fists of Fury 4 and Pure Max 19, which finished up shortly after lunch, and the defense was permitted to call one of its witnesses, retired porn star Summer Luv, out of order.
Luv, who now works in the offices of a Las Vegas construction company, testified that she had shot about 15 scenes with Max Hardcore, and that although she had worked for several production companies including Elegant Angel, Metro, Simon Wolf and Red Light District, she enjoyed shooting with Hardcore most because the other companies "didn't care about you."
Luv then took the jury through a typical Max Hardcore shoot, noting that each time, he spent about an hour explaining what would be happening during the upcoming scene and making sure Luv would be okay with the various actions - anal sex, peeing, fisting and vomiting - to which the young starlet replied that she was, because "I'm kind of an extremist," and the action "piqued my interest." She noted that she had helped created the storyline of her humorous scene in Pure Max 19, where she played a Brazilian hooker, and that she was allowed to take breaks whenever she needed them during filming.
She also testified that since there was urination involved, both she and Max had drunk plenty of water two to three hours before the scene was to commence, so that whatever urine came out would be mostly water. She said that she was allowed to use a buttplug to stretch her ass before anal scenes, that the fisting was sometimes faked for stills, and that the sets were cleaned immediately after shooting was completed.
As to why Luv retired from adult, she said, "I grew up, I had a son, so I'm just being a mommy."
Under cross-examination by prosecutor Lisamarie Freitas, Luv testified that Hardcore paid her as much as $1500 for a scene, and in cases where he took her abroad to shoot, she was paid as much as $10,000, although she was sure of the exact figure.
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