People v. Enskat

Opinion

COLE, J. *

This is a pornography case, here on certification by, the Appellate Department of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County on its own motion. When we accepted the case and ordered it transferred here, we did so primarily to decide whether the municipal court erred in instructing the jury that it could disregard expert testimony of community standards if it found that the conduct in question was so patently offensive as to violate any conceivable community standard.

That question and other issues previously presented in the appeal have now been overshadowed by a new contention…