"In a stunning rebuke to overzealous prosecutors," reports the New York-based National Coalition Against Censorship, the owner and manager of the store called simply Newstand, in Bellingham, Wash., have been found not guilty and awarded $1.3 million "for prior restraint and for retaliatory prosecution" by a U.S. District Court jury in Seattle. Ira Stohl and Kristina Hjelsand had been charged with obscenity for selling the controversial magazine "Answer Me!" a short-lived but legendary periodical that offered extremely politically incorrect articles about rape, among other subjects. The NCAC earlier reported the owners of Newstand rejected an offer from the prosecutor to drop criminal charges in return for a promise not to carry further issues of "Answer Me!" or "anything remotely similar." Instead, the freedom fighters displayed the magazine in their store, chained, under lock and key. The jury found that the troglodytes in charge of Whatcom County had violated Stohl and Hjelsand's First Amendment rights, caused emotional suffering, and damaged their business. Censorship News, the quarterly newsletter of the NCAC, is published out of 275 Seventh Ave., New York, N.Y. 10001, e-mail ncac@netcom.com, web page http://www.ncac.org. Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin@lvrj.com. The web site for the Suprynowicz column is at http://www.nguworld.com/vindex/. *** Vin Suprynowicz, vin@lvrj.com Voir Dire: A French term which means "jury stacking."