State v. Treadwell

PHILLIPS, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of two charges of disseminating obscenity in violation of G.S. 14-190.1. One of the convictions was arrested, and she was sentenced on the other one. Defendant’s sole defense at trial consisted of opinion testimony by five purported expert witnesses which the court excluded. The testimony was based upon a number of studies conducted to ascertain Charlotte’s contemporary community standards relating to explicit sexual material. Defendant contends that the trial court’s rejection of that evidence, along with some comparable materials evidence, entitles…