5 year sentence for obscenity passed down

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in Montana. Says it's the longest sentence ever handed down in an obscenity prosecution

http://www.axcessnews.com/modules/wf...articleid=6975

Montana Hands Down Longest-ever Sentence in Obsenity Case

(AXcess News) Billings MT - U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull handed down the longest-ever sentence in an obsenity case Friday, sentencing Sanford Wasserman, 65, of Lauderhill, Florida to five years in a federal prison without the possibility of parole.

Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, said Wasserman was convicted of conspiring to distribute obscene materials as part of his guilty plea.

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The videotapes depicted violent "gang rapes" of women, sexual intercourse between humans and animals, and other sexual activity which involved urination, defecation and sadistic and masochistic conduct.

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Mercer stated that this is the longest sentence ever imposed in and obscenity case. Co-defendant Thomas W. Lambert received a 30-month sentence earlier this year for the same crime. Gary Robinson of Billings received a twelve-month sentence for the distribution of obscenity in 2004.