California porn dealers sentenced to prison in Pa.
[i]PITTSBURGH – A husband and wife from California were sentenced to a year and a day in prison for conspiring to distribute pornographic videos depicting simulated rape and murder.
Robert Zicari and Janet Romano also received two years of supervised release at sentencing Wednesday. They pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to distribute obscene material.
Zicari and Romano owned Extreme Associates Inc., of Northridge, Calif. An undercover U.S. postal inspector in Pittsburgh purchased DVDs from them and a grand jury found the images met the Supreme Court’s test for obscenity.
Defense attorneys contested the government’s claim that the material is “sadistic or masochistic” for sentencing purposes, but that argument was denied.[/i]
lol, not us. Hollywood can churn out murder and rape scenes all they want. Even mass human destruction with body parts flying for laughs. But this, well, this is just bad. lol.
[quote]lixy wrote: California porn dealers sentenced to prison in Pa.
[i]PITTSBURGH – A husband and wife from California were sentenced to a year and a day in prison for conspiring to distribute pornographic videos depicting simulated rape and murder.
Robert Zicari and Janet Romano also received two years of supervised release at sentencing Wednesday. They pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to distribute obscene material.
Zicari and Romano owned Extreme Associates Inc., of Northridge, Calif. An undercover U.S. postal inspector in Pittsburgh purchased DVDs from them and a grand jury found the images met the Supreme Court’s test for obscenity.
Defense attorneys contested the government’s claim that the material is “sadistic or masochistic” for sentencing purposes, but that argument was denied.[/i]
For anyone who cares to read the facts and the law (rather than the spin), the case was originally dismissed and reinstated on appeal to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. Attached is the 3rd Circuit opinion.
[quote]lixy wrote: California porn dealers sentenced to prison in Pa.
[i]PITTSBURGH – A husband and wife from California were sentenced to a year and a day in prison for conspiring to distribute pornographic videos depicting simulated rape and murder.
Robert Zicari and Janet Romano also received two years of supervised release at sentencing Wednesday. They pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to distribute obscene material.
Zicari and Romano owned Extreme Associates Inc., of Northridge, Calif. An undercover U.S. postal inspector in Pittsburgh purchased DVDs from them and a grand jury found the images met the Supreme Court’s test for obscenity.
Defense attorneys contested the government’s claim that the material is “sadistic or masochistic” for sentencing purposes, but that argument was denied.[/i]
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
lixy wrote: California porn dealers sentenced to prison in Pa.
[i]PITTSBURGH – A husband and wife from California were sentenced to a year and a day in prison for conspiring to distribute pornographic videos depicting simulated rape and murder.
Robert Zicari and Janet Romano also received two years of supervised release at sentencing Wednesday. They pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to distribute obscene material.
Zicari and Romano owned Extreme Associates Inc., of Northridge, Calif. An undercover U.S. postal inspector in Pittsburgh purchased DVDs from them and a grand jury found the images met the Supreme Court’s test for obscenity.
Defense attorneys contested the government’s claim that the material is “sadistic or masochistic” for sentencing purposes, but that argument was denied.[/i]