Why I love law school
The cases I'm reading for Crim Law class tomorrow are about whether mistake or ignorance are a defense to a criminal charge involving a mens rea element, i.e. criminal intent. One of the cases is about the Lindbergh baby murder. The one I just started reading is about TRACI LORDS. "But we *thought* she was 18!" The opinion's even written by Kozinski, my favorite 9th Circuit judge (sorry, Fletcher(s) and Noonan).
If anyone has a copy of Those Young Girls, the film at issue in this case, made when Lords was 16, I need to see it for research purposes.
"[P]urveyors of smut from coast to coast were taken in by an artful, studied and well-documented charade whereby Lords successfuly passed herself off as an adult." - 858 F.2d 534 (9th Cir. 1988)
OMG! "On its face, [the statute] requires only that a defendant arrange for a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of creating a visual depiction, and that there be a nexus to interstate commerce." Id. at *mumble*. ilcylic! You were right!
Traci Lords! This is even better than the EFF hypothetical in the Property book.
Note that I also majored in English in undergrad largely because I found out in high school that Chaucer and Shakespeare were relentless fonts of smut, and these were two of the foremost giants in the canon of English literature - meaning that I could major in smut and get a degree for it. I was wholly vindicated in this decision once I got to Persuasion halfway through college and discovered that even Jane Austen made the occasional sodomy joke. Great English literature: I can't define it, but I know it when I see it.
If anyone has a copy of Those Young Girls, the film at issue in this case, made when Lords was 16, I need to see it for research purposes.
"[P]urveyors of smut from coast to coast were taken in by an artful, studied and well-documented charade whereby Lords successfuly passed herself off as an adult." - 858 F.2d 534 (9th Cir. 1988)
OMG! "On its face, [the statute] requires only that a defendant arrange for a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of creating a visual depiction, and that there be a nexus to interstate commerce." Id. at *mumble*. ilcylic! You were right!
Traci Lords! This is even better than the EFF hypothetical in the Property book.
Note that I also majored in English in undergrad largely because I found out in high school that Chaucer and Shakespeare were relentless fonts of smut, and these were two of the foremost giants in the canon of English literature - meaning that I could major in smut and get a degree for it. I was wholly vindicated in this decision once I got to Persuasion halfway through college and discovered that even Jane Austen made the occasional sodomy joke. Great English literature: I can't define it, but I know it when I see it.