State v. Hughes

OPINION

By the Court,

Pickering, J.:

This is an appeal from a district court order granting a motion to dismiss a child pornography charge. Respondent Aaron Taylor Hughes allegedly created three digital videos of himself engaging in sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old. He faces several criminal charges, trial on which awaits resolution of this appeal. We are concerned only with the charge the district court dismissed: the use of a minor, identified in the criminal information as “a person less than the age of eighteen,” in producing pornography or as the subject of a sexual portrayal in a…