PEOPLE v. LERCH

No. 83-1827.

134 Ill. App.3d 643 (1985)

480 N.E.2d 1253

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WILLIAM LERCH, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (5th Division).

Opinion filed June 28, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey Grossman, of Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU, Inc., and Gerald Werksman, both of Chicago, for appellant.

Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Nicholas Geanopoulos, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

PRESIDING JUSTICE MEJDA delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, William Lerch, and his wife, Mariann, were charged with creating pornography by photographing their six-year-old child in the nude with her pubic area exposed (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 11-20a(b)(2)) and with knowingly permitting their child to be so photographed (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 11-20a(b)(3)). In a bench trial, Mariann Lerch was found not...

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