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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Pedo sites. They'll use 2257 to stack the deck against them on top of their CP charges. Then when a plea deal is offered, it's something like "We'll drop the 2257 charges if you agree to plead guilty to the CP production." Now the plea doesn't cut into the main charge.
I will be shocked if any legit adult companies are ever checked.
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I'd modify this to pedo and "obscenity", but this is almost exactly how I think it will be used in the real world. It's a tool to bypass normal protections under the law, allowing the DOJ to investigate and prosecute obscenity and CP without having to follow the normal rules concerning search and siezure.
here's an interesting clip from this article from 11-29-2004:
http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary...tent_ID=207208
Continuing the trend to obfuscate legal issues pertaining to adult entertainment by associating it with child pornography, the government reports that the ?number of child exploitation and adult obscenity investigations and prosecutions increased by more than 300% since 2001.?
Cambria notes that the DOJ is exaggerating their ability to prosecute adult material by lumping it together with child pornography. ?When you track down their convictions, most of them are to pleas to child porn. Some of them have to do with extreme types of adult entertainment: bestiality, or really hardcore depictions of rape or situations like that,? Cambria said. ?That is not mainstream product, I have not seen any mainstream adult products prosecuted.