Legal Opinion

State v. Bagnes

Utah Supreme Court

Decided February 7, 2014No. 20100882PublishedCited by 41 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Justice LEE,

opinion of the Court:

¶ 1 Barton Bagnes challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his convictions for lewdness involving a child and sexual exploitation of a minor by distribution of child pornography. Bagnes’s offense was in dropping his pants in front of two young girls, exposing a toddler-sized diaper he wore underneath, and in distributing a flyer depicting images of diaper-clad children and adolescents. We reverse. Bagnes’s conduct was strange, and socially inappropriate. But it did not fall to the level of criminal lewdness or sexual exploitation under the…

2Cases cited25 opinions

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  3. Ashcroft v. Free Speech CoalitionSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
  4. Jenkins v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  5. State v. DunnUtah Supreme Court · 1993

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3Cited by41 opinions

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