That's right. The clerk. Not the owners, who in this case have led prosperous lives in Dallas, circulating in the ranks of respectable society. Gary Hartstein and Paul Radnitz, the principal owners of New Fine Arts Video, are nowhere near the defense table today because it's the city's policy to register its distaste for the burgeoning porn industry by prosecuting only the working sods who run the stuff through the scanner and put the money in the till.
These enforcement actions, which happen once or twice a month at New Fine Arts, appear to be more political accommodation than anti-porn crusade. They do next to nothing to stamp out smut. The ritual does, however, allow Dallas police and prosecutors to say they're doing something when complaining residents or the Center for Decency--backed by notables such as real estate mogul Ebby Halliday and car dealer Ray Huffines--ask what's being done to push back the licentious tide.
The vice squad's busts, which have been going on routinely for the past decade, are a problem for one group of people, and one alone: the low-wage store clerks who are criminally charged. A little later I quit I didn't especially enjoy working there.
Living alone, she needed to pay rent and her tuition at Collin County Community College, where she's taking 3-D computer animation. There are clerks working in Dallas porno shops with more than 50 such convictions to their names. Over the last 18 months, though, New Fine Arts and another large shop, Amazing Superstore, have taken a different tack. They began hiring Andrew Chatham, a fresh-faced lawyer who recently worked as a public defender, and they've been taking the cases to trial.
To everyone's surprise, Chatham has won every one in a row going into Woodson's. He has forced 17 other charges to be dropped. Chatham's success rests in part on changing sexual attitudes, which have no doubt loosened in Dallas over the years. It is still a stronghold of "red states" social conservatism, but Dallas is the kind of city where one week a group will hold a golf tournament with topless dancers tending the flagsticks, and the next week someone will be teeing it up to support a decency campaign.
Full text. Join the Observer community and help support independent local journalism in Dallas. Get the latest updates in news, food, music and culture, and receive special offers direct to your inbox. Support Us Dallas' independent source of local news and culture. There's nothing like a dirty movie to get County Criminal Court No. Especially when the title is Euro Angels 20, Anal Retentive --contents exactly as advertised--and it's about to be unreeled in the obscenity trial of the hapless clerk who sold it.
The court stenographer is cracking slightly off-color jokes. Two young male prosecutors who've stopped by are thumbing through the racy evidence, trying their damnedest to maintain sober looks. Even Judge Ralph Taite is reminiscing about a funny thing that happened at a long-ago blue-movie trial. Everybody, it seems, is enjoying his work. The only glum face belongs to year-old Brenda Woodson, the defendant.
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