Alvin Greene

Expert: Obscenity Charge Brought Against Alvin Greene Extremely Rare (VIDEO)

Justin Elliott | June 14, 2010, 8:35AM

SC-SEN candidate Alvin Greene (D)

An expert in obscenity law tells TPMmuckraker that the statute being used to prosecute South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Alvin Greene for allegedly showing a college student porn is on the books in every state but is almost never enforced.

As media outlets have repeated again and again in the coverage of Greene's mystery Senate candidacy, he was charged in November with disseminating, procuring, or promoting obscene material -- a felony. (See court documents here.) As University of South Carolina student Camille McCoy, 19, described the incident in an interview on Fox Friday, Greene allegedly showed her pornographic images on a computer (of "woman-on-man porn, pretty much sex I guess") at a university computer lab, and then remarked, "Let's go to your room now."

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