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is no established evidence that the films involved in this case have ever been sent to the jurisdiction by defendants except for those copies ordered by the
Government". Toushin asked the Tennessee court to transfer his case to Northern Illinois but Judge Nixon refused, stating that the appropriate finder of fact is a jury selected from the community in which the offense took place and that such a transfer should only be granted when there is “intentional overreaching” by the government. Nixon found that “although the Government took measures inducing the defendants to mail allegedly obscene materials to Middle Tennessee, the defendants made a deliberate decision to conduct business here ". (
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The U.S. government sought indictments for "obscenity by the standards of a local community" by ordering U.S. Postal
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films were not legally obscene. At the time of indictment, the U.S. government was conducting a third investigation in
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film to be released commercially in the U.S., Alex DeRenzy's "Pornography in
Denmark." At that point the Aardvark became a porn theater. Later that year Toushin and his partners opened other theaters and sex clubs throughout
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