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Free Speech Alert - AZ Photographers & Webmasters
I just received a call from a Arizona criminal defense attorney who is representing the webmaster/photographer in the Desert Divas case. Apparently the webmaster/photographer for that site has been charged with the same criminal charges as the owner of the escort service.
For merely taking pictures and maintaining the website he has been charged as though he owned and profited from the site. He was merely an IC.
This is a serious First Amendment issue and can have real ramifications for the industry that operates in Arizona and for the state of Arizona, if they were to lose this prosecution and subsequent appeal(s).
From what I was told none of the photographs went beyond mere nudity.
This is what happens with an over zealous prosecutor trying to become the next State Attorney General.
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