State v. Cinema Blue of Charlotte, Inc.

HEDRICK, Chief Judge.

In their first two arguments on appeal, defendants contend the trial court erred in excluding expert testimony by Dr. Joseph Scott. Defendants sought to have Dr. Scott testify as to 1) the proper community standard for obscenity in Mecklenburg County and 2) the community acceptance of other sexually explicit materials “comparable” to those which defendants were convicted of disseminating. Defendants correctly point out that “appropriate expert testimony” may be offered “to explain to juries what they otherwise would not understand” in an obscenity case. State v. Anderson,…