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Constitutional Law

Mar. 22, 2003

Circuit Rejects Porn Charge Against Mother

SAN FRANCISCO - Use of a camera and film made outside California to take a sexually explicit photo of a mother and her 10-year-old daughter cannot be the basis for a federal charge against the mother for possession of child pornography, a federal appeals court held Thursday.

By Pamela A. MacLean
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Use of a camera and film made outside California to take a sexually explicit photo of a mother and her 10-year-old daughter cannot be the basis for a federal charge against the mother for possession of child pornography, a federal appeals court held Thursday.
A portion of the federal statute was held unconstitutional as applied in the case of a private, family-ma...

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