(DOWNLOAD) "State V. Lichon" by Arizona Court of Appeals # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State V. Lichon
- Author : Arizona Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 02, 1989
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
Description
The defendant, Ronald E. Lichon, appeals from a conviction of one count of renting an obscene item in violation of A.R.S. section 13-3502 (Supp.1988). The trial court designated the offense a misdemeanor and placed the defendant on probation for three years. We affirm and publish this opinion to advise trial judges to instruct jurors in obscenity cases that if the jury chooses to review allegedly obscene items during deliberations, they should not do so in a piecemeal fashion. Such an admonition is meant to ensure that the items are considered as a whole, as required by statute and Supreme Court decision. We discuss this issue in more detail below when we deal with the propriety of allowing the jury access to the videotapes and a VCR player. The case presents a number of other issues.