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I heard this morning from John Wesley Hall, one of the attorneys for three clerks at X-Mart, the porn store in Clarksville, who were cleared by a Clarksville jury yesterday of criminal charges for selling obscene merchandise, hard-core movies featuring the likes of anal intercourse.

I thought some of Hall’s assessment of the law and “community standards” in Arkansas were worth passing along.

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It was the second obscenity rap Hall has helped beat. He now has a win in western and eastern Arkansas. Tell me NWAers and LAers, would it be any different in your part of the state?

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