The charges The State of Pennsylvania has made against Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes continue to amaze us.

We aren’t specifically certain that The Doctrine of Unclean Hands can be asserted in a crminal setting. However, if ever there was a fucking spectacular example of UNCLEAN HANDS, The Bryan Kocis Murder Scandal is IT.

The State of Pennsylvania is essentially arguing that Harlow Cuadra killed Bryan Kocis to FREE Gay Pornstar Sean Lockhart (aka Brent Corrigan) from a contract Lockhart had with Bryan Kocis to perform gay bareback sex for money in videos for Cobra Video.

When the hell in the fucking history of the American Criminal Justice could there have ever been something like the above before A Court?

Add to the above that:

1. Cobra Video is apparently an illegal business in Pennsylvania because Pennsylvania has not specifically decriminalized the production of adult videos (as California has). Cobra Video is still operating in Pennsylvania and, apparently, The Pennsylvania State Police is listed on Cobra Video’s website (and products) as the “Keeper of Record” for the age documentation on Cobra Video models.

2. In 2002, Police in Pennsylvania had video of Bryan Kocis having sex with a 15 year old boy. Now, although this had (and has) not been specifically mentioned in the press, since Kocis DID claim that he met the boy and filmed the boy for his Cobra Video business, ONE MUST ASSUME that Kocis PAID the 15 year old boy money for the “right” to video himself having sex with the boy. There was/is a mentioning in one press account of Kocis’ 2002 case that Kocis had the boy sign a “contract”. Again, “contract”, “Cobra Video” would lead a reasonable person to assume that Kocis paid the 15 year old boy money for sex. Interestingly enough, or rather not so interestingly enough, while Kocis was allowed to plead down having sex with the 15 year old boy, there was no mention of PROSTITUTION charges against Kocis during his 2002 child molestation case. THIS is now all the more strange given that it appears the production of adult videos has NOT been decriminalized in Pennsylvania.

The list of bizarre and “seeemingly” illegal shit about Bryan Kocis’ life and times in Luzerne County is literally ENDLESS. Every day we uncover some new fact which makes something else Bryan Kocis was doing in Pennsylvania an “apparently” criminal offense.

The only situation we can think of that could be even close to being as fucking “otherworldly” as the Bryan Kocis Murder Scandal is “possibly” when one Gangster is on trial for killing another Gangster.

Clearly, so-called “Mob Men” are prosecuted all the time for killing other “Mob Men”. However, we have never heard of any situation in which THE PROSECUTION’S case against the Mob Man who committed the murder called for The Court and The Jury to accept that the murdered Mob Man was engaged in a legal business.

Again, and again, we are at a lost to understand WHY The State of Pennsylvania would even allude to Bryan Kocis being involved in a legal business, that Bryan Kocis’ contract with Sean Lockhart could be a legal contract or that anything Bryan Kocis was involved in could have been conceivably legal. NOTHING BRYAN KOCIS WAS INVOLVED IN APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN LEGAL. At the time Bryan Kocis was killed, he was actively and openly involved in trying to FORCE Sean Lockhart to perform gay bareback sex for money. Could a Hollywood script writer even think that up?

AT EVERY SENTENCE in the murder charges The State of Pennsylvania has drafted against Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes, the reader is left with the clear impression that THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA is more concerned with SANITIZING BRYAN KOCIS than it is with winning a conviction against Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes.

Isn’t It Ironic that The Commonwealth of Virginia is now in a position where it is being asked to Recognize and Legitimize A Contract For Sex given that The Commonwealth of Virginia’s Marriage Affirmation Act makes ALL contracting between persons of the same sex VOID AND UNENFORCEABLE in the Commonwealth of Virginia?

The beauty of the Relationship LLC ® is that sex is not and can not be part of the contract. The Beauty of the Relationship LLC is that two or more people can contract to share their lives and a certain amount of their combined assets WITHOUT having The State involved in regulating their sex lives.

However, when we introduced The Relationship LLC back in 1996, The Fucking Gay Marriage Idiots saw the opportunity to claim that they could circumvent the ban on Gay Marriage by using a collection of contracts. The Commonwealth of Virginia’s Marraige Affirmation Act, passed in 2004, is a direct response by the Commonwealth of Virginia to a group of extremely ill advised individuals claiming that they could Circumvent the Gay Marriage Ban with Contracts. We refused an interview with The Gay Financial Network to make it clear that a Relationship LLC had nothing to do with Sex or Sexual Preferences.

Given that the Commonwealth of Virginia was so concerned about Gay People using contracts to approximate marriage (or to otherwise “formalize” gay relationships), it is then rather funny and rather ironic that The Commonwealth of Virginia is now in the position where it is being asked by The State of Pennsylvania to, more or less, recognize that Gay Pornstar Sean Lockhart had a legal and enforceable contract with Bryan Kocis. BTW, that little “contract” between Sean Lockhart and Bryan Kocis called for Sean Lockhart being paid a certain amount of money to perform Gay Bareback Sex Acts in Cobra Video.

Again, if The Attorney for Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes can put The Commonwealth of Virginia in the position where The Commonwealth of Virginia has to recoginize and/or legitimize the “Contract” between Sean Lockhart and Bryan Kocis (in order for for The Commonwealth of Virginia to hold that the Pennsylvania charges against Harlow and Joe are VALID CHARGES), Harlow and Joe WILL WALK on the Murder Charges against Them.

IF The Attorney for Harlow and Joe can argue that the Pennsylvania Charges against Harlow and Joe are not valid charges because The State of Pennsylvania is before The Court in Virginia with unclean hands asking the Commonwealth of Virginia to recognize and legitimize a contract for sex, it seems to me that the Commonwealth of Virgnia would choose to NOT recognize the Pennsylvania charges against Harlow and Joe as valid charges INSTEAD of being placed in the position of approving prostitution. Consider this unbelievable legal argument,

The State of Pennsylvania is arguing that Harlow and Joe Killed Bryan Kocis to FREE Sean Lockhart from a contract that REQUIRED Sean Lockhart to perform GAY BAREBACK SEX FOR MONEY in Cobra Videos? The only thing stranger than the State of Pennsylvania actually MAKING such a charge is that Pennsylvania seems to think that Virginia will have no problem recognizing such a charge as A VALID CHARGE.

Virginia’s Marriage Affirmation Act
prohibiting the recognition of same-sex marriages and civil unions, this legislation threatens to overturn private contractual relationships between gay and lesbian couples.
The full text of the act is:
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 20-45.3 as follows:
§ 20-45.3. Civil unions between persons of same sex.
A civil union, partnership contract or other arrangement between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges or obligations of marriage is prohibited. Any such civil union, partnership contract or other arrangement entered into by persons of the same sex in another state or jurisdiction shall be void in all respects in Virginia and any contractual rights created thereby shall be void and unenforceable. http://www.equalityvirginia.org/site/pp.as…mE&b=303642

Where is it is written that The Adult Entertainment Industry wants THE THREAT OF LITIGATION hanging over their heads every time they give some guy fifty bucks to j/o on video?

Andrew Gilden’s Assumption

Andrew Gilden has written a 23 page analysis on the ASSUMPTION that Adult Entertainment Companies WANT the courts involved in settling employment disputes between Adult Entertainment Companies and Adult Industry Performers.

“adult entertainment industry requires the protection of the judicial system in order to ensure that the tremendous financial value invested into its business is not sacrificed as a result of broken promises, faulty expectations, or criminal sanctions. However, unlike other industries, the adult entertainment industry is uniquely situated in murky legal waters due to the peculiar commodity it endeavors to sell: sexual performance on camera.” Andrew Gilden, “Sexual (Re)Consideration: Adult Entertainment and the Problem of Enforceability”, The Georgetown Law Firm. http://www.georgetownlawjournal.org/issues…lden%5B1%5D.pdf

However, is there any evidence that the majority of Adult Entertainment Companies WANT the fucking Courts involved when it comes to Adult Entertainment Companies “contracting” with performers?

Mr. Gilden is in academia and he appears to have THAT DISEASE that is common with many people who STUDY LAW. Law Professors and Law Students have this strange notion that LAW is PURE, that the Courts actually funciton the way they appear to function from the reading of citations, that somehow a fucking idiot can’t become a Federal Judge (or a Supreme Court Judge). Law Professors and Law Students have this strange notion that having the fucking COURTS involved in your life is a good thing. In My Opinion, The Adult Entertainment Industry is more than happy with the way things are when it comes to their hiring THE BODIES that they use in their products. Litigation only benefits those people charging by the hour to litigate (litigation only benefits lawyers).

America today functions BECAUSE of the high cost of litigation and the threat that some idiot Judge will just fuck-up your life and your business if you make the mistake of filing a lawsuit against soemone. The overwhelming majority of people in America with a fucking brain KNOW that it far better to WORK OUT DISPUTES INFORMALLY than to play Russian Roulette with Dumbass Judges who aren’t paid enough money to support the lifestyles they are leading.

There is a scandal now in New York in which the winners in divorce cases were decided by what lawyer was buying the Judge the most expensive cigars and which lawyer was paying for the Judge’s dinners. Who the fuck wants to bet their life and their business on whether their lawyer is more CONNECTED with the Judge than the other guy’s lawyer?

In my opinion, the Adult Entertainment Industry is like the Staffing Industry when it comes to how they relate to their “employees”. In the Staffing Industry, the average person temping is not a temp long enough for any Temp Agency to benefit by thinking LONG TERM when it comes to how it relates to Temps (i.e., things like healthcare, vacation time, retirement etc.). Reportedly, the turnover rate for temporary workers is 400% in the US. Similarly, given the LIMITED SHELF LIFE of most Adult Entertainment Stars, especially the extremely limited shelf-life of GAY Adult Entertainment Stars, Adult Entertainment Companies would be foolish to actually want the threat of litigation hanging over their heads every time they hire A BODY to appear in one of their videos.

Harlow Cuadra (more likely his lawyer) posted a blog entry saying that he preferred to pay Sean Lockhart a “lump sum” for Lockhart appearing in a boybatter.com video “because he didn’t want to get involved in all of the paperwork that would be required if he agreed to pay Lockhart royalties”. I submit to you that IF Adult Entertainment Companies did manage to get their contracts with performers recognized as legal by the Courts, eventually, more Adult Industry Performers would be demanding “royalities” (something that can’t possibly be a “good thing” for the Adult Entertainment Companies).

Adult Entertainment Companies clearly do want “The Litigation Option” when it comes to illegal duplication of their product and when it comes to Adult Entertainment Companies being able to produce and distribute their product freely.

In New York City, Falcon Studios seems to be rather famous among adult video retailers for suing any and everybody who duplicates a Falcon Studio product. This is all well and good, but, every business accepts a certain amount of “shrinkage” (i.e., a certain amount of theft and fraud). You have to wonder if the EXPENSE Falcon Studios incurs by being so litigious is justified by the small dent Falcon makes in the illegal video duplication racket.

Marriage Prostitution and Contracts for Sex

It is interesting that “Sexual (Re)Consideration” does not appear to actually get to discussing The Two Most Recognized Contracts for Sex in the State of California, i.e., Marriage and Domestic Partnerships

Andrew Gilden does consider what is more or less the State of California’s COMMON LAW MARRIAGE STATUTE, i.e., the case law associated with Marvin v Marvin. In Marvin v Marvin, a woman who had been living with the actor Lee Marvin sued the actor for “divorce” more or less on the grounds that she was essentially Lee Marvin’s common law wife.

In America, Marriage is a recognized EXCEPTION to the prohibition against contracting for sexual services. The legal argument is that THE STATE has an interest in promoting stable families so THE STATE has an interests in making it legal for one man and one woman “to contract with each other for sex”, i.e., to marry.

California’s Domestic Partnership Registration Law clearly recognizes SEX as being part of the domestic partnership contract as the State of California DEFINES the two people registering as domestic partners as “two people who are intimate”.

WHEN THE STATE does allow two people to contract with each other for sex, the State steps into the relationship to REGULATE the relationship. THIS IS A FINE POINT that the Gay Marriage Idiots continually fail to realize. The State REGULATES the sexual activities of married couples. In some States, there are sex acts that are illegal even for married couples. The State of California REGULATES the sexual activities of Domestic Partners by making it illegal for more than two people to register as domestic partners.

I submit to you that IF Adult Entertainment Contracts were to be legally recognized by the State of California, the State of California would then step in to REGULATE what kind of sexual activities could be contracted for in those contracts. In fact, the US Justice Department is essentially already engaged in trying to regulate what sexual activities are ACCEPTABLE in Adult Entertainment in America

Would The State of California allow fisting to be a contractable activity if The State of California decided to reocginize Adult Entertainment Contracts as legal and enforceable?

The Georgetown Law Journal and Sean Lockhart

If Lockhart was arguing in court in San Diego (prior to his meeting with Cuadra and Kerekes in Las Vegas in January 2007) that his contract with Cobra Video was void and unenforceable because it constituted PROSTITUTION, how can Lockhart then testify in a murder trial for Cuadra and Kerekes that he told Cuadra and Kerekes that he could not appear in a video for their company because he was LEGALLY BOUND to Cobra Video?

We posted a blog entry titled Marriage Prostitution and Contracts for Sex some time ago that discussed how the fine line separating Marriage from Prostitution was getting even finer (as a result of legal cases like Anna Nicole Smith and the Brent Corrigan/Bryan Kocis affair). Now, of course, as a result of the Bryan Kocis Murder Scandal, everybody is talking about contracts for sex, specifically contracts that Adult Video Producers sign with their performers.

The Bryan Kocis/Brent Corrigan Saga essentially started out as a desire by Sean Lockhart/Brent Corrigan to break away from Bryan Kocis/Cobra Video and produce his own work and/or to work for other Adult Video Companies.

It is our understanding that even The Georgetown Law Journal has weighed in on Adult Video Industry Performance Contracts. The Georgetown Law Journal article is more about the State of California in that it allegedly (we still can’t access the file) argues that if California is going to reap so many rewards from the Adult Video Industry being concentrated in California, then California should then recognize Adult Video Performance Contracts as legal.

Most of the people debating this issue are just declaring that Adult Video Performance Contracts are illegal because Contracts for Sex are illegal. This is not entirely correct.

Not All Contracts for Sex Are Illegal. Marriage is a Contract for Sex and marriage is legal. Also, Prostitution is legal in some counties in the US. There is legal prostitution in some counties in Nevada.

If you doubt that Marriage is legally recognized as a contract for sex, consider this:

1. One partner to a marriage can have the marriage declared VOID if the other partner refuses to provide sex.

2. One partner to a marriage can sue OTHER PEOPLE if other people do something to a spouse that results in the spouse being unable to provide the partner with sex. We read a news article some years ago that claimed that former Adult Video Performer Jack Wagner was suing someone for doing something that resulted in injury to his much older wife. Wagner (as we recall) charged that his spouse was unable to perform as a result of the injury.

3. Most domestic partners contracts (by states and cities) DEFINE domestic partners as two people who are INTIMATE.

With respect to Adult Video Industry Performance contracts, if the Producers want the contracts to be valid and enforceable, they need only have the contracts signed and the performances performed in a county in Nevada in which prostitution is legal.

Splitting Hairs

There are so many LITTLE THINGs about the Bryan Kocis Murder Scandal that are bound to make a lot of people in the legal profession squirm (or to at least be glad that they are not the judge or the prosecutor for the Harlow Cuadra/Joe Kerekes murder trial).

1. We pointed out already that while Cuadra and Kerekes are charged with stealing and destroying Cobra Video’s MASTER TAPEs, some of those tapes were pulled from the market, allegedly because and underaged boy was in them. So, THE STATE could be in the position of arguing before a Jury that Cuadra and Kerekes stole and destroyed KIDDIE PORN that the Victim had produced and that was still in the Victim’s possession.

2. THE MOTIVE The State has set forth to date is that Cuadra and Kerekes killed Kocis to free Brent Corrigan from his CONTRACT with Cobra Video. Well, as we discussed, Adult Video Industry Performance Contracts are void and unenforceable if they were intended as contracts for sex. So, THE STATE would be arguing before a Jury that Cuadra and Kerekes killed Bryan Kocis because Kocis was trying to legally FORCE Brent Corrigan to comply with the terms and conditions of AN ILLEGAL CONTRACT FOR SEX.

The above are just two of many many reasons why we don’t think there will ever be a trial for Cuadra and Kerekes. We think Luzerne County will throw everything it has into getting Cuadra and Kerekes to plead guilty to something (specially since the Current DA of Luzerne County is running for Judge in the November Elections). If there is a trial for Cuadra and Kerekes, it should be video taped and presented as a Comedy Show at Law Schools around the country. No Judge and No Prosecutor in Luzerne County is going to walk way from a Murder Trial for Cuadra and Kerekes WITHOUT becoming the laughing Stock of the Country.

THE HAIR SPLITTING with respect to the “CONTRACT” between Bryan Kocis and Brent Corrigan is that the Kocis Sympathizers are claiming that Kocis TECHNICALLY sued Corrigan for trademark infringement and fraud. However, THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT that ended the lawsuit Kocis filed Against Corrigan et. al. allegedly calls for Corrigan to appear in X number of new Videos for Cobra Video. So, it should be clear to even the simpliest of minds that BRYAN KOCIS’s INTENT when he sued Corrigan in Federal Court was to FORCE Corrigan to perform gay sex acts in more Cobra Videos (i.e., Bryan Kocis’ intent in suing Corrigan in Federal Court was to force Corrigan to comply with the terms and conditions of an illegal contract for sex).

Freaking The Freak Out of The Freak Show Trial

Now, take a deep breath, there is even more FREAK to this Freak Show.

Someone CLAIMING to be CLOSE to Brent Corrigan has claimed on a number of messageboards that the Cointract Bryan Kocis had Brent Corrigan signed called for Brent Corrigan being Bryan Kocis’ LOVER. If THAT ain’t’ a contract for sex, then there ain’t no such thing as a contract for sex.