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He could have made a great case, with the help the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund was offering him. The presiding judge even ruled that the relevant part of the PROTECT Act that the government was using to prosecute Handley was unconstitutional, though he didn't strike the obscenity charge. Considering the deal Handley ended up taking (six months in prison with three years of "supervised release" and five of probation) it seems like the obvious choice to fight.
But maybe he just didn't want any more attention than he was already getting as "that pedo comic guy", which you know is what 99 percent of Americans who read the story thought about him. I can understand that. And the government almost definitely threatened him with sex offender status if he didn't play along and take the deal. Not that it likely helped him at all in prison.
What a great fucking world we live in, huh?
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