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Congratulations to JM. And best of luck to Five Star.

Even though Jeff and I don't usually see eye to eye, this was never something for which they deserved to be prosecuted.

I'm going down to the courthouse tomorrow to watch the day's events.

We should celebrate by degrading some whores.

Congratulations to one of the best porn companies out there today.

JM Productions is mentioned in Wikipedia under "Obscenity"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity

I was wondering how many people from JM Productions were in court? Also how much does it cost in legal fees even in situations like these where the case is thrown out of court
I would have liked to have been in the jury to have the chance to see all the movies although it would feel a bit weird to watch porn in a group

Does it make things any sweeter that former Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzalez may be prosecuted?

-Chuck, Vegetarian fanboy

As much as I'd love to see it, it'll never happen in a million years. Al's George's boy from Texas. If he commuted the sentence of a flunky like Scooter, He'll pardon Alberto outright before it even goes to trial.

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Like the idea of having sex with another person in the room?

From avn.com

Judge Dismisses All Charges Against One Five Star Defendant
Surprise Move in Obscenity Case
By Mark Kernes

Posted: 6:34 PM PST Oct 23, 2007

PHOENIX – Late this afternoon, and over strenuous objections from prosecutor Ken Whitted, Judge Roslyn O. Silver dismissed all charges against Ken Graham, co-owner of Five Star Video LC and Five Star Video Outlet LC.

Judge Silver noted that the government had presented only one witness and one document that directly tied Graham to the website www.fivestardvd.com, from which FBI agent Tod Price had ordered the four DVDs originally charged as obscene. She further noting that that witness, former Five Star employee James Puckett, had testified that Graham, who lives in Las Vegas, was only on the Five Star premises in Tempe, AZ sporadically – "He'd be there for a week, gone for a week," Puckett said – and that Graham had only discussed shipping procedures generally with Puckett. Therefore, the judge ruled, the government had failed to show that Graham had the scienter – knowledge of the character and content of the charged videos – necessary to be found guilty of the charges of transporting obscene materials.

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Whitted had argued that the fact that Graham was, according to domain name registrar Network Solutions, the registrant of the site www.fivestardvd.com was sufficient to prove that Graham "owned" the site, and was therefore responsible for any allegedly obscene materials sold through it, but Graham's attorney Jeffrey Douglas countered that the registrant of a domain name was not necessarily the owner, and didn't necessarily have any direct knowledge of what happened on the site – and that the government had failed to provide any evidence that Graham had such knowledge.

"Of course, we're overjoyed by the win," Graham said, referring not only to himself but to his father who had been in the courtroom throughout the trial, and to his sister who had been there today.

Not so happy was co-defendant Chris Ankeney, whose attorney, Richard Hertzberg, had failed in his motion to have the charges dismissed against his client.

Hertzberg had argued that Ankeney had had no connection to the website at all; that he had only been in charge of Five Star's retail store, Five Star Video Outlet; that Ankeney had not been familiar with either JM Productions, its owner Jeff Steward or the character of JM's product; and that the government had presented no evidence that Ankeney had affirmatively ordered any of the charged videos: Filthy Things 6, Gag Factor 15 and 18; and American Bukkake 13.

Whitted, however, countered that Ankeney was the on-site partner, noting that Puckett had put Ankeney at the Five Star location at least four days per week, and that Ankeney was the person who generally gave Puckett his assignments. Judge Silver felt that that was sufficient to impute to Ankeney knowledge of the products Five Star sold, though for that statement, she did not appear to distinguish between items for sale in the retail store and items for sale through the website.

All of the above took place outside the hearing of the jury, which had been dismissed at approximately 2:30 this afternoon, allowing the attorneys to argue several motions regarding admissibility of evidence – particularly material comparable to the DVDs charged here – and the motions to dismiss all charges. How the jury will react when it returns at 9 a.m. tomorrow and finds one less defendant and one less defense attorney in the room can only be a matter of speculation

Fuckin' great.

More good news from avn.com

Judge Dismisses Obscenity Charges Against Second Five Star Owner
By Mark Kernes

Posted: 11:47 AM PST Oct 24, 2007

PHOENIX – Judge Roslyn O. Silver today dismissed obscenity charges against Chris Ankeney, co-owner of Five Star Video and Five Star Video Outlet LLC.

Ankeney was charged with transporting obscene material and transporting obscene material by common carrier stemming from the sale of eight JM Productions DVDs. Judge Silver's decision follows her dismissal yesterday of identical charges against Ken Graham, the corporation’s other co-owner.

Ankeney’s attorney Richard Hertzberg presented just three witnesses during the defendant’s case: longtime Five Star employees Ethan Singer and Nathan Garrett, and David Michael Pain, a private investigator hired by the defense to purchase materials comparable to those charged in the indictment.

Both Singer and Garrett testified that Ankeney had nothing to do with the website www.fivestardvd.com, through which FBI agent Todd Price had purchased the JM videos in question. Both also testified as to the relative computer proficiency of Ankeney and Graham, stating that on a scale of one to ten, Ankeney would score a 1 or 2 while Graham would score an 8 or 9. The testimony implied that Ankeney could not possibly have ordered videos for the website, nor maintained nor managed the site in any way.

Therefore, at the end of the defense case when Hertzberg argued for dismissal of the charges against Ankeney, he pointed to the testimony that Ankeney had had nothing to do with the website. Moreover, Hertzberg argued that of the roughly 20,000 different titles stocked in the Five Star warehouse, the defendant could not be assumed to be aware that eight of them – 1/20th of one percent of the inventory - were of the “more extreme” JM variety.

Prosecutor Kenneth Whitted argued that the credibility of the defense witnesses was a matter for the jury’s consideration, and that therefore, a dismissal of the charges by the judge was not appropriate. Whitted also said that the mere fact that Ankeney was present at the business at least four out of five work days, and that the door to his office was just 50 feet from the door to the warehouse where all the inventory was stocked, implied that Ankeney was familiar with the “character and content” of the materials being sold.

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However, Judge Silver ruled that based on a Ninth Circuit decision in the Sherwin case, the fact that Ankeney was aware that sexually explicit videos were being sold by his companies did not necessarily impute to him the knowledge that some of the videos might be so extreme as to be considered obscene. She also pointed out that it was very possible that Ankeney would not know the content of the eight JM Productions videos stocked among the company’s 20,000 other videos in inventory. She therefore dismissed all charges against Ankeney.

After the luncheon recess, counsel are expected to discuss the judge’s proposed instructions to the jury and the case is expected to be in their hands later this afternoon.

Stay tuned to AVN.com for updates.

Good on ya Brother! Let freedom ring!

Phoenix Jury Finds JM's Gag Factor 18 Obscene

PHOENIX – After just five hours of deliberation, a jury composed of eight women and four men announced at 1:00 this afternoon that they had determined that Five Star Video LC and Five Star Video Outlet LC were guilty of obscenity charges for having shipped JM Productions’ Gag Factor 18 to an undercover FBI agent in Falls Church, VA.

The jury found the Five Star companies guilty of the interstate transportation of obscene materials and the interstate transportation of obscene material by common carrier. However, the companies were acquitted of the same charges for shipping two similar JM Productions videos, Filthy Things 6 and American Bukakke 13.

Five Star co-owner Ken Graham, who had received a directed verdict of not guilty on Tuesday, told AVN that he spoke with some of the jurors after they had been dismissed by Judge Roslyn O. Silver. Graham said that the jurors had agreed that Gag Factor 18 was “too extreme” for the community standards of the Phoenix area.

However, the jurors admitted that many of them were familiar with adult video productions, and had found Filthy Things 6 consistent with ordinary adult fare. The jurors were divided as to American Bukakke 13, with its depiction of multiple men ejaculating on a single female – which several of the jurors had found offensive, according to Graham.

“What’s interesting to me is that we told the jurors about some of the evidence that the judge had excluded from the case,” Graham said, “and they told us that if they had known that that material was being sold in the Phoenix area, it probably would have made a difference in their verdicts.”

Watch this space for updates.

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Phoenix is the home of the Retarded Law Enforcers Club, featuring:

AZ AG Andy Thomas, who wants all the Arizona Superior Court judges disbarred
Phoenix AG Terry Goddard, who wants Thomas disbarred
Maricopa Co sherriff Joe Arpaio, who wants them both arrested
Fired county AG (P)Rick Romley, who sucked all of their cocks
AZ Senator Jon "fuck the press" Kyl
Impeached governor Fife "trust fund" Symington
Impeached governor Evan "pickaninnie" Maecham, thankfully dead

Oh yeah...and Mormons...lots and lots of Mormons

wait so i was the ONLY one hoping someone ended up in jail just to hear the crybaby stories???

laaaaame

I was hoping you would win in a jury decision, hopefully to give the next prosecutor, who would like to repeat this travesty of justice, pause. None the less a win is a win, so congratulations to Jeff and company!