I had a professor at Temple University for a drama course and he always like to say, “art is crap”. He should have been on the witness stand for the “scatman” Ira Isaacs who’s pretty much using the same defense in his now third obscenity trial. Isaacs, if you’re late tuning in late, makes poopie drawers movies. But, as we’ve already learned from the second trial, it’s peanut butter and chocolate cleverly disguised.
According to the reports from www.xbiz.com Isaacs was “downright chipper and relaxed” on Wednesday. Isaacs who calls his trial a witch hunt, should be. He’s had enough practice with two mistrials already under his belt. The jury of six men and six women along with four alternates is expected to deliberate by the end of the week after they’ve seen a quartet of movies dedicated to defecation.
FBI special agent James Mynick was again called to the witness stand, as in the second trial, relating how he purchased Makos First Time Scat from one of Isaacs’ websites. Mynick has delivered this spiel so often he probably even believes it.
The two-hour video was then played for the court. It featured a Japanese women being slapped, choked, gagging on her own vomit, drinking urine from a man’s penis, swallowing cum and defecating and then eating her own feces. Granted, it’s not Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, but Isaacs insists what he’s doing is art. Horses might agree.
According to the XBiz report, it seems that the women jurors are watching the video more than the male jurors who avert their eyes. [Something to keep in mind when sharing a pizza and selecting a movie with your lady friend.]
The second part of the double-feature was another two-hour extravaganza, Hollywood Scat Amateurs #7, a role reportedly passed on by George Clooney who opted for bigger pieces of crap with the Ocean’s Eleven trilogy.
The prosecution called several witnesses to the stand in an attempt to show that Isaacs and his companies produced and mailed obscene material.
One of them was Isaacs’ former employee Marlayna Trickett, who worked as a receptionist with the company from 2006 to 2007 and who testified in the second trial. According to Trickett her duties with Isaacs’ company, LA Media, included taking phone and online movie orders, making duplicates and shipping movies to customers using either the United Postal Service or the U.S. mail.
As she also did in the second trial, Trickett rehashed the story how Agent Mynick borrowed the Star Trek name of James Kirk to order Makos First Time Scat and that the movie was shipped to Alexandria, Va.
Justice Department attorney Michael Grant asked Trickett if she ever spoke to Isaacs about his work. She replied that he once told her that he had “located a niche market where he can make money.”
Grant then asked Trickett if Isaascs ever talked about art or ever shipped his videos to art galleries or exhibits. Trickett replied that he did not.
On cross examination, Isaacs’ attorney Roger Diamond solicited from Trickett the fact that her work environment was friendly, professional and she was always treated with respect.
Other witnesses included Matthew Goward, Special Agent of the Cyber Crime Unit for the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and LAPD Det. Kyle Lewison. Goward was assigned the task of examining copies of all the hard drives that were seized from Isaacs’ office. Whereas Det. Lewison investigates illegal distribution of obscene materials.
Lewison testified that he has been investigating Isaacs and his companies since the raid in 2006. In 2011, he had made a couple of undercover online purchases of two movies.