The Third Circuit’s Sexting Skeptics

More coverage and an update from the Legal Intelligencier on Friday’s first ever federal appeals court hearing on sexing as child pornography:

As the nation’s first case involving criminal prosecutions of teenagers for “sexting” made its way to a federal appeals court in Philadelphia, all three judges seemed skeptical of the prosecutor’s claim that child pornography laws are violated when a teen transmits a nude image of herself.

The three 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges also appeared poised to declare that former Wyoming County District Attorney George Skumanick Jr. violated the First Amendment rights of three girls with his threat of a criminal prosecution if they refused to take a class he had designed to educate youths about the dangers of sexting.

More on this case at the First Amendment Center and Wilkes-Barre Times Leader.

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