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Sex offender jailed for possessing Maxim magazine
MSNBC.com

Updated: 12:38 a.m. ET July 18, 2005
MIAMI - Authorities in Florida are sending convicted sex offenders to
jail for violating the terms of their probation by having men’s
magazines such as Maxim.

Andrew Calderon, 23, was jailed for six days before a judge ordered
his release after officers found a racy poster and calendar and copies
of Maxim in his home earlier this year.

A judge will decide next month whether Calderon’s probation should be
revoked or extended and whether the materials were innocent.

Corrections officials said Calderon, who was on probation for the
sexual battery of a mentally disabled relative, committed a violation
by having “sexually stimulating” material.

But in court papers, Calderon’s lawyer, Mel Black, described Maxim as
far from obscene.

“This is beyond schoolmarmism here. It’s really mind-blowing,” Black
said.

In another case, sex offender Joseph Conte, 56, was arrested when
authorities found a copy of a sex manual in a drawer next to the bed
the former schoolteacher shares with his wife. A judge later dismissed
the probation complaint.

Florida authorities have increased their surveillance of sexual
offenders since two young girls were slain earlier this year, both of
them allegedly attacked by sex offenders who were free on probation.

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