{"id":28963,"date":"2012-03-02T12:10:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T16:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28963"},"modified":"2012-03-02T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T16:10:34","slug":"court-upholds-conviction-of-gay-porn-star-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28963","title":{"rendered":"Court upholds conviction of gay porn star Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We first discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26786\">Matthew W. Simmons last Fall<\/a> when a military appeals court said that his conviction for wearing remnants of his uniform in a gay porn movie was improper. Well according to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mcclatchydc.com\/law\/2012\/03\/court-reinstates-marine-porn-star-conviction.html\">McClatchy<\/a>, another appeals court has overturned that appeals court decision and upholds his conviction;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He took leave to appear in several commercial pornographic videos that involved sodomy with numerous other men, by his own account being paid $10,000.00 for his performances. Some of the videos included shots of him wearing his Marine dress blue coat with the Marine Corps device, decorations, and rank insignia affixed; others showed him wearing a Marine physical training jacket; and at one point he mentioned that he was a Marine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All three members of the panel agreed;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The very essence of this pornography, styled, branded, titled, and marketed with a military theme, took on a distinct Marine Corps flavor and, on the facts before us, a prohibited service endorsement by the appellant at the institutional expense of the Marine Corps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to see the military finally standing behind their wear and appearance standards for a change. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We first discussed Matthew W. Simmons last Fall when a military appeals court said that his &hellip; <a title=\"Court upholds conviction of gay porn star Marine\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28963\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Court upholds conviction of gay porn star Marine<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}