From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 23:21:04 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Barnes & Nobles indicted on child porno... [CNN]
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>           NATION'S LARGEST BOOKSELLER CHARGED WITH CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
>                                        
>      February 18, 1998
>      Web posted at: 10:28 p.m. EST (0328 GMT)
>      
>      MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) -- An Alabama grand jury indicted the
>      nation's largest bookseller, Barnes & Noble, on child pornography
>      charges involving the sale of books by noted photographers whose
>      work includes pictures of nude children.
>      
>      State Attorney General Bill Pryor said Wednesday he started the
>      grand jury investigation after receiving complaints about two books
>      being sold at Barnes & Noble stores in Alabama: "The Age of
>      Innocence" by French photographer David Hamilton and "Radiant
>      Identities" by San Francisco photographer Jock Sturges.
>      
>      The indictment accuses the New York-based company of disseminating
>      "obscene material containing visual reproduction of persons under 17
>      years of age involved in obscene acts."


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