By Dan Horn
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Jurors took just 30 minutes Wednesday to convict the 29-year-old owner of an adult bookstore in Corryville on charges of pandering obscenity.

It was the third trial for Shawn Jenkins, owner of Tip Top Magazines, after the first two ended in mistrials on the same charge.

The obscenity charge stems from the sale of the video Max Hardcore Extreme Vol. 7.

Jurors were told before the trial that the content of the video was more explicit than most mainstream pornography. After viewing the video, the jurors deliberated for just over 30 minutes.

Assistant prosecutor Brad Greenberg told jurors the video violated Cincinnati's community standards for obscenity.

But defense attorney H. Louis Sirkin said other graphic videos are available in Cincinnati via mail order and other means. It's unfair, he said, to punish Jenkins for selling material that could easily be acquired elsewhere.

Sirkin said he was disappointed in the verdict and plans to appeal. Jenkins trial was his third in two years on the same charge.

The first trial ended in a mistrial after Sirkin complained that prosecutors failed to share some information with him. A second mistrial was declared in July after a juror fell asleep during the showing of the video.

Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Richard Niehaus will sentence Jenkins on Jan. 30. He faces up to a year in prison.