Ray Guhn Case to Depend on Community Standards

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ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. - Circuit Court Judge Ron Swanson ruled Tuesday that the community standards of a four-county area will be used in determining whether videos Ray Guhn produced are obscene.

While Swanson rejected the grounds for the case's dismissal, which were brought by Guhn's attorney Larry Walters, the judge granted Walters' request that jurors use the community standards of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton counties, instead of those of only Santa Rosa County. The effect of this ruling was to nullify the prosecution's earlier transfer of the case from Esacambia to Santa Rosa County.

This will benefit the defense, Walters said.

"This is a victory and an important ruling for our case," Walters told AVN Online on Wednesday. "We are slowly chipping away at this concept that county standards are appropriate for the Internet. While we believe it should be the nation or the state, at least we received a larger area than just one county. We argued that it would be too small of an area without enough diversity."

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