Back in 2012 a then 50 year old Brent Justice (ironically sur-named and pictured below at that time) was arrested for filming animal torture fetish videos showing puppies, kittens and other small creatures being mutilated, stabbed and decapitated.
This piece of crap was arrested in 2012 with a woman named Ashley Nicole Richards, aged 25 and pictured below, who appeared in the so-called “animal crush” videos.
Justice failed to heed Abe Lincoln’s sage advise, rejecting 3 different attorneys and deciding to represent himself during the trial.
One of the videos that Justice produced and sold was submitted as evidence and played in court. It showed a scantily-clad Richards wearing a mask and decapitating a puppy before urinating on the animal’s dead body.
As an aside, on the federal side of this debacle, in 2013, U.S. District Judge Sim Lake dismissed the five counts of video creation and distribution against Richards and Justice, citing the films as protected free speech under the First Amendment. But in 2014 the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the charges, noting that the First Amendment allows limited restrictions on some speech, including obscenity, and that the federal law passed constitutional muster because of the “secondary effects” of the videos (highlighting the fact that not all speech is “free”).
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