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Pee-wee Wants Porn Charge Punted

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Pee-wee Wants Porn Charge Punted

The misdemeanor child porn charge filed against Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman) should be tossed because the actor's extensive collection of adult erotica waThe misdemeanor child porn charge filed against Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman) should be tossed because the actor's extensive collection of adult erotica was produced decades before the 1989 enactment of California's child pornography laws, according to a legal motion filed today (1/24) by Reubens's lawyer.In the Los Angeles Superior Court filing, attorney Blair Berk also disclosed that prosecutors have now abandoned plans to claim that Reubens's ownership of the famous "Rob Lowe videotape" constituted possession of child porn. According to Berk, police executing a November 2001 search warrant at Reubens's home seized "well over 30,000 images and more than 650 hours of film" from the actor's "vast and valuable historical collection of artwork, kitsch memorabilia, and adult erotica." Of that haul, Berk stated, prosecutors have identified as child porn "isolated images contained in one vintage book, approximately 24 vintage magazines,and a single vintage film." Below you'll find declarations filed in support of the Reubens dismissal motion--one from Berk, the other from a professor of photography. (5 pages)

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