Grand Jury to Investigate Kansas Adult Stores Again
By: Thomas J. Stanton
(from AVN)
TOPEKA, Kan. – Relying again on a Kansas law which mandates a grand jury investigation if enough names can be gathered on petitions, Abilene anti-adult entertainment proponent Phillip C. Cosby, and Paul Barnes, president of Topeka Evangelical Area Ministries, have announced that they have gathered 3,300 signatures to seek a grand jury investigation of four adult businesses: Priscilla’s, After Dark Video, Adult Entertainment Center and Sinsations.
A recent story in The Captial-Journal reported that Cosby and his group Operation Southwind have used the tactic several times before without much success.A Salinas grand jury last year refused to issue indictments. A Wichita grand jury subsequently investigated seven adult businesses and returned only a single indictment. Now it will be Topeka’s turn.
Portions of this courtesy of the Free Speech X-Press, the weekly newsletter of the Free Speech Coalition. More info at www.freespeechcoalition.com.