Two sets of lawyers were busy yesterday representing the interests of Larry Flynt in both Cincinnati and Washington.
In Cincinnati a judge ruled that Hamilton County prosecutors will have to wait until the Ohio First District Court of Appeals rules on the validity of the case against Flynt.
The Cincinnati Post reports that should take until at least March 1 before the appeals courts rules on whether or not the 1999 charges of pandering obscenity against Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and his brother can be renewed.
The charges arose from allegedly selling obscene videos at their Cincinnati Hustler Hollywood. LFP plead guilty, paid a fine and promised to never again sell the tapes in Hamilton County. At the time Larry Flynt was in the process of obtaining his gambling license for the Hustler Casinos.
Some of the videos in question were later deemed not obscene by a jury in Hamilton County, so Hustler Hollywood began selling the videos again. Prosecutors claim that violates the plea-bargain agreement.
Tuesday's hearing was delayed from August because of Larry Flynt’s gubernatorial candidacy in California’s recall election.
In Washington, the Supreme Court turned down a request to hear an appeal that was filed by Flynt and another casino owner that claimed Native American’s were receiving unfair advantages from the state of California based on the color of their skin. Slot machines are only legal on Indian reservations.
California's non-reservation casinos can only play card games, in which they are only allowed to take a percentage of profits, rather than having players compete against a house bank.
A lower courts ruling that reservations were entitled to special arrangements stands.
