I know that no judge likes to be overruled by an appellate court, but the acts of animal cruelty in this video were so horrid as to be unspeakable. The judge should have allowed the trial to proceed, disregarding the possibility that he might get overruled.
ASHLEY NICOLE RICHARDS AND BRENT JUSTICE: FEDERAL JUDGE SAYS VIDEOS OF CHOPPING DOG’S HEAD WITH MEAT CLEAVER IS ‘PROTECTED SPEECH’
We're fucking speechless
By Craig Malisow
Houston Press Hair Balls
April 22, 2013
A federal judge has dismissed charges against a Houston couple who sold videos of them torturing animals -- including beating a dog with a meat cleaver and stepping on a cat's eye with a shoe heel -- on free speech grounds.
Ashley Nicole Richards and Brent Justice still face charges of producing, selling, or transferring obscene matters for sale or distribution. The two had originally been charged in Harris County District Court, but those charges were dismissed in December when the two were indicted on federal charges.
U.S. District Judge Sim Lake wrote in his order that, while "the acts depicted in animal crush videos are disturbing and horrid," it is still considered protected speech.
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