More (Was Re: Naughty Journal Author Denied Plea Change)

[Matthew Gaylor]

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SEX DIARIST HAD GOOD COUNSEL, HIS FORMER LAWYER SAYS

Friday, September 7, 2001
NEWS   01F

By Tim Doulin
Dispatch Staff Reporter 	Illustration: Photo

If Brian Dalton hopes to have his conviction for pandering obscenity 
thrown out, his new attorneys will have to prove he received poor 
legal counsel.
But the attorney who represented Dalton said that wasn't the case. 
"With all the facts that I know, I believe he was effectively 
represented,'' said Isabella Dixon, Dalton's original attorney.

As part of a plea agreement, Dalton, 22, pleaded guilty on July 3 to 
creating a journal in which he describes in detail the torture and 
sexual molestation of children. Dalton said the writings were 
fictional and were never distributed to anyone. Still, Franklin 
County Common Pleas Judge Nodine Miller convicted him of pandering 
obscenity involving a minor and sentenced him to seven years in 
prison.

The case shocked lawyers who specialize in First Amendment and obscenity law.

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