After two mistrials, an adult film producer has been sentenced to four years in US prison after he was convicted of violating federal obscenity laws by selling movies depicting bestiality and other extreme fetishes.
US District Judge George King gave Ira Isaacs the sentence and ordered him to pay more than US$10,000 in fines and court costs.
In April, a jury found Isaacs, 62, guilty of five counts, including mailing obscene matter. He faced anywhere from probation to a 20-year prison sentence.
The jury had to watch the four Isaacs films named in the charges in their entirety. Most showed fetishes involving faeces. Jurors deliberated for just two hours before delivering the verdict.
Isaacs' attorney Roger Jon Diamond told City News Service that they planned to appeal.