British lawyer and writer John Mortimer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, died Friday. He was 85. ...more

January 16, 2009

TAMPA Defense attorneys for a California pornography producer, charged with distributing obscene materials through the mail, tried to prove to a jury today that their client didn't mail the DVDs to Tampa – an independent distribution company did. ...more

May 30, 2008

TAMPA - With a security officer posted outside to check the identification of anyone who looked underage and a pounding soundtrack blaring through the sound system, a federal jury watched five graphic video montages this morning in the obscenity trial of a man who calls himself Max Hardcore. "It's hard to believe that these innocent-looking girls will subject themselves to such vile perversions," boasts the Max Hardcore Web site, which depicts the defendant, whose real name is Paul Little, smiling broadly from beneath a white cowboy hat. ...more

May 28, 2008