The key is to be in the right states which things like this just don’t happen reality bites but that how america rides. No matter what anyone here thinks they know, the reality is that if you fall into the court system be ready to shell out a lot of money for basic stuff, imagine something that could give a prosecutor plenty of money to burn and great political clout.

For get about the attorney on the defendant side if its court appointed its basically someone just buying time or not a very good attorney unless you can get one from outside and these cases are expensive and long, not something a real attorney want’s to spend time doing.

We have so many laws now against so much that those who talk about how it will never happen to them can find themselves in trouble, of course you could always use in Iowa the religion card maybe he should have used that one.

As for transporting, that is a common attack when everything else fails, read a little about the law and what technics are used the transportation one is used all over for almost anything they can, don’t be so naive to believe this was a good thing, the reality is like in many countries we are also heading into the dreaded religions right knows best.

I’m just wonder since when are people allowed to check books you receive in the mail… I mean it’s highly unlikely child porn is going to be bound and published even in Japan but so many people buy manga from abroad you cant just say “oooh yer sorry this is illegal” before you’ve even read it.

I also think that people need to do more research they’d likely realise that the obscene stuff they found was frankly mild…. or so i’d hope.

Alot of Manga does cross bordera with nudity an example being in Naruto with his “Sexy Technique” being a character under 16 does that make that child porn?

I’d hope not or we’re all screwed…

“shake your shrew of a wife- until her teeth rattle!”

Klassy!!!!!

Handley was not prosecuted for possession of obscene materials, which is actually protected under established case law. He was prosecuted for interstate transport. From the legal decision cited above:

Thus, while an individual
has a limited right to possess obscene materials in the privacy of his own home, there
exists no right to receive or possess obscene materials that have been moved in interstate
commerce, and that is the illegal conduct with which Defendant is charged.

There is no dispute that the images at issue in this case do not involve real children but
instead depict cartoons of children. Because the images at issue do not depict real children but
instead merely cartoon depictions of children, the images are to be measured by the standard of
obscenity enunciated in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. at 15. Obscene materials are not limited to
those involving real persons and can include materials such as cartoons.

By the way, the US government outlines its case to deny the motion to dismiss here.
http://uncivilsociety.org/handley_order.pdf

And the law is crystal clear. Any purchase of material showing cartoon characters of underage children engaged in sexual contact that has no artistic merit is against the law.