Gordon Lee Back To Court Today

The CBLDF announced late last night that the case of Georgia v. Gordon Lee goes back to court this morning for a Hearing on Motions. The comics retailer faces two misdemeanor court of "Exhbition of Harmful Materials to a Minor," the remaining charges after seven others (including two felony counts) were knocked out in past hearings by the Fund and its legal representatives. The motions to be argued are a Motion to Dismiss based on the unconstitutionality of the State Harmful to Minors law, a memorandum in support of that motion, a Motion to Dismiss based on prosecutorial misconduct, and what the Fund lists as "two Demurrer and Motion to Quash documents; another motion to quash, and two procedural motions..."

The charges stem back to a single incident in 2004 whereby Lee accidentally put Alternative Comics #2, featuring incidental male nudity, into the hands of a customer while the store was participating in a local merchants' Halloween celebration. Things got weird and decidedly more contentious earlier this year when another minor was introduced by prosecutors as having been exposed to the material; this happened very late in the process.
 
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