Gritzner was petitioned to drop some of the charges, but instead ruled that two parts of the PROTECT Act criminalizing certain depictions without having to go through the Miller test were unconstitutionally overbroad. Handley still faced an obscenity charge. The motion was initially heard on June 24, 2008, but was not widely publicized prior to the Fund's involvement. CBLDF board member Neil Gaiman remarked on how this could apply to his work The Doll's House, saying, "if you bought that comic, you could be arrested for it? That's just deeply wrong. Nobody was hurt. The only thing that was hurt were ideas." Sentencing Handley entered a guilty plea in May 2009; at Chase's recommendation he accepted a plea bargain believing it highly unlikely a jury would acquit him if shown the images in question. In February 2010, under the terms of plea, Handley was sentenced to six months in jail. Without the plea, he would have faced a maximum of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Upon release he was required to undergo three years' supervised release and five years' probation. Under the plea agreement, he is excluded from being required to register as a sex offender. Later case law United States v. Dean, a 2011 case in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, called the overbreadth ruling into question because the Handley case failed to prove that 1466A a(2) and b(2) were substantially overbroad in the context of a facial challenge. See also Laws regarding child pornography Legal status of drawn pornography depicting minors PROTECT Act of 2003 Lolicon Censorship References External links United States District Court Southern District of Iowa Judgment in a Criminal Case United States of America v. Christopher S. Handley Case Number:1:07-cr-00030-001 - Sentencing document In the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa United States of America Plaintiff, v. Christopher S. Handley Defendant Criminal No. 1:07-cr-00030 Reply Memorandum in Support of Defendant's Motion to Dismiss - Statements in defense of Handley's motion to dismiss the case United States of America, Plaintiff, vs. Christopher S. Handley, Defendant. No. 1:07-cr-00030-JEG ORDER - Judge's response to the motions to dismiss 2009 in United States case law United States district court cases