Sweet Entertainment Official Press Release
 

April 23, 2004

P R E S S R E L E A S E

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Re: Sweet Productions Inc. / Steve Sweet Obscenity Prosecution

Mr. Steve Sweet was today acquitted on all 20 counts of charges of making, distributing and circulating obscene videos contrary to s. 163 (8) of the Criminal Code of Canada.

The Honourable Judge R.R. Low in a cogent and concise 25 page written Judgment held that that the impugned videos, consisting of scenes from SEG websites www.sadoslaves.com, www.misspain.com and www.peelovers.com left him with a reasonable doubt, on the basis of the defence evidence proffered, that the videos offended contemporary Canadian community?s tolerance for other Canadians viewing the material.

Mr. Sweet is delighted with the outcome of this seminal decision and wishes to congratulate his counsel, Paul G. Kent-Snowsell, for mounting such a thorough and vigorous defence to the charges.

The full Reasons for Judgment will be available within the next 2-3 weeks at www.provincialcourt.bc.ca using the search term <BDSM>.


The full 25 page decision will soon be posted on our site. I will post a link when available. Thanks to everyone for your support (you know who you are!)

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Congrats to Steve and everyone else at SEG

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Awesome News Max. Fucking Rights!!Good Luck !!

Give that judge a sweet load to the face. hehe

CONGRATS!!!!!

This is so awesome, you guys fought the good fight on this one. any victories the govt scores on obscenity will just give them more confidence to go after more people. The sweets did a great service to our industry. You may not like what they shoot, but lots of people dont like what YOU do.

good news for producers in BC:thumbsup

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Congrats again!

congratulations...this is great news for all of us. :thumbsup

BIG TIME :thumbsup

Let free speech reign!

Someone out to take the verdict thats written on and shove it up G Dubya's & George Asshead's bumholes!

GJ guys!

Congrats great to hear.

Congrats STEVE!

I am sure you are glad it's all over.......

A HUGE congrats to the Sweet crew.

Some of the best news I've heard in the last couple days...

Congratulations Steve Sweet & Crew!

A battle well fought, the victory is yours!

Geoff Baker
formerly known as Tom Sweet :)

Great News. Congrats :thumbsup

Great victory for free speech!

Congatulations

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Steve Sweet and the full time SEG crew are top notch, I have always supported them and they are a great company to do biz with and to work for. This is absolutely amazing and I am very happy with the outcome of this verdict.

Congrats guys!!

Huge victory! Nice work. I bet the girls in the SadoSlave dungeons are trembling tonight.... :winkwink:

I can only imagine how elated Steve must feel right now.

Congrats to the entire crew there at Sweet!:thumbsup

Cool.

Now all of the companies that talked trash about you behind your backs are shitting right now.

The sweets are back in business.

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Hey! We never stopped DOING business :thumbsup

For those interested in the judge's full 25 page decision you can download the pdf

HERE

Thanks to everyone for their support and get ready for what we have in store next!

Are the people that filed claim against him going to pay his attorney bills and lost wages? They should.

I have to admit I am surprised to see acquittal on all counts. I pretty much figured it would be a show trial to make an example of one of the producers.

Good stuff SEG. This is an important day.

Great news Max...thx to the Sweet group for taking one for the team.

Great news for the sweets and the rest of producers in BC. Keep up the good work boys.

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Holy crap, that was quick. We can do stuff like pee content in Canada now, Sweet :thumbsup

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Finally, some good news!

Nice :thumbsup

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GO SWEET !

max , can you get albert to contact me !! Thanks (details in my sig) :thumbsup

NICE! Now, we need to see a ruling like this in the US.:thumbsup

You can read the full 25 page decision

HERE

Anyone producing fetish content in Canada is well advised to give this a thorough read.

Webgurl! Albert's off for the day - (until our victory party tonight LOL)..
I will make sure he contacts you :)

Very interesting

great news. while it doesn't have any impact in america, i'm sure the first admenmant lawyers will review his decision closly so they can use the same arguments when it comes to court in thte US

i read all 25 pages VERY closely...

WAY TO GO GUYS!!! you made a giant gain for us Canadian content producers!

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good job :)

When you read the decision and consider that shows like Kink and Sex TV are on general broadcast TV here you can see where the Crown's case falls apart.

I sort of saw this thing as part of the prejudicial feud the VPD has with SEG and their "porno warehouse". I wonder what they will pull next.

It will be a long time if ever before there are charges like this laid again.