He subsequently pleaded guilty to the pornography charge in Bergen County Superior Court, and the drug charges were dropped.

The pornography charge carries a maximum sentence of 18 months.

In 1990 Barrie and the gallery were indicted on pornography charges stemming from an exhibit of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe entitled The Perfect Moment.

In the early 1990s he was convicted on a morals and pornography charge with an underage girl and on three counts of federal firearms violations.

The headmaster of a Manhattan preparatory school who is facing pornography charges has resigned, the school said yesterday.

Pornography is illegal in Thailand and sometimes pornography charges have been used against LGBT-themed media.

A popular postmodernist writer facing pornography charges in Russia says he fears he could end up the subject of a show trial, in a government effort to control free expression.

A Zambian magistrate has thrown out pornography charges brought against a news editor who mailed pictures of a woman giving birth on a pavement during a doctor's strike to the vice-president.

And in 2000, Mr. Jackson was arrested while on vacation in the Dominican Republic on pornography charges.

Mr. Naughton faces up to 10 years in prison on the pornography charge and 15 years each on the two other counts if he is retried and convicted.