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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU that way. The way
of the world. The one with the hood over the phone with the other little girl. Thank you.
You're OK you're
OK. You know what I mean. I think I'll go
one by one. How are you.
What does this case indicate to you that it takes to prove an adult bookstore is guilty of selling obscenity something that is not out there yet. It's impossible because the material that we sell is not obscene. What would it take for something to be obscene in your opinion. I think anything dealing with children or with animals could be and would be deemed obscene. But anything beyond that now. So in your mind what was the reason that the
jury in general apparently sided with you. Well I believe that they studied the material and felt that in today's contemporary community standards this is accepted. And therefore I had to side with me on if the if the if the definition of community had included only a harbor city rather than an entire community or entire state do you still feel confident that they would have found the same way. Yes to a certain extent of course. We'll never have to deal with that question because community standards has been fi defined by the United States Supreme Court and until if it ever that decision has been changed will never have to deal with that problem. But I do feel confident that as long as it was not just the group that was trying to close me on the jury. Yes I still feel confident that it could have been a good decision.
The group that opposed you said that they are going now to work mainly at the legislative level to try to strengthen the law. Did you foresee any kind of counter effort by folks such as yourself to prevent a redefining of the obscenity law. No I don't because the United States Supreme Court set the guidelines in the Miller case and the legislature of the state in New Jersey or any undue independent state can and should enact laws that would be a guide of the Supreme Court ruling. And we don't violate any of the Supreme Court rulings. So therefore if the state follow passes the same exact law as the United States Supreme Court we would still be covered under the First Amendment. What about charges that shops such as this attract a criminal element and increase the level of sex crimes and studies that have indicated such.
I know of no studies that have ever indicated that. And I don't believe in that at all. I don't believe that that any occurrence whatsoever. We'll just take a couple more shots here. Right. You know you opened up. You got your license in August and you opened it went no no I never got my license. I still do not have a license. I opened September 1st and I had applied for my license it was turned down. We then opened with the folks also claim to have a petition that they say indicates said. Well first of all their petition shows that the city is pretty much opposed to the idea of having a bookstore here. Also they say that they've been keeping license plates. They think that the great majority of your customers come from out of town. Well I would say that the majority of my customers come from out of competitions
on different matters that. Petitions do not work were covered by the First Amendment but were allowed to go to the sign that I see outside is not the same what we want to keep saying in the paper what is the one thing you know the whole world. All the world are the same. No one here is on the front of the building as adult world and he lets out it's his fantasy oh oh oh yeah. So the first members of the world the world. We want from our forefathers children. Why.
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Title
Prono Story/ Girl in store 3 of 3
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New Jersey Network (Trenton, New Jersey)
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00:18:15
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Chicago: “Prono Story/ Girl in store 3 of 3,” New Jersey Network, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 10, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-259-6d5pcg7s.
MLA: “Prono Story/ Girl in store 3 of 3.” New Jersey Network, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 10, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-259-6d5pcg7s>.
APA: Prono Story/ Girl in store 3 of 3. Boston, MA: New Jersey Network, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-259-6d5pcg7s