State v. Cooley

MAUS, Judge.

The defendant was convicted of promoting pornography in the second degree. § 573.030, RSMo 1978 (now repealed). The statutes under which she was convicted defined the third element of pornography as “applying contemporary community standards: ... It lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.” § 573.010(l)(c), RSMo 1978, (now repealed). She contends her conviction was invalid because Pope v. Illinois, 481 U.S. 497, 107 S.Ct. 1918, 95 L.Ed.2d 439 (1987) in relevant part has defined pornography as “whether a reasonable person would find such value in the…