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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Ind. Decisions - "Teen Showed Porn From Back Of Moving Car"
M.S. v. State of Indiana , a Curt of Appeals opinion summarized July 15th by the ILB, was the subject of a report by Rick Hightower of Indy 6 News this morning. Some quotes:
The Indiana Court of Appeals earlier this week upheld the conviction of a teen driver who was playing a pornographic video in his car.The video screen was not installed in a typical place, nor was it the usual small-sized mobile screen, 6News' Rick Hightower reported.
The 16-year-old boy was pulled over at 38th and Sutherland Avenue last year because he had the sex video for all to see on a 15-inch video screen in the rear window of his car. * * *
"People have to be responsible for what's on those screens," said Indianapolis Metro police Sgt. Paul Thompson. "We had a situation where someone had a pornographic video that was visible to people outside the vehicle. Indiana has laws that protect children from obscene matter."
Children, whose parents' cars were nearby, got an eyeful of the on-screen action, and there wasn't much that could be done to avoid seeing it.
The appeals court affirmed a lower court conviction on Tuesday.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 17, 2008 12:16 PM
Posted to Ind. App.Ct. Decisions