LOS ANGELES — Clip artist and cam model Mayven Doll and her partner and co-creator BDSMneam are this week’s guests on "Holly Randall Unfiltered" as they discuss their experience with Arkansas’ criminal justice system.
The couple, according to a rep, “found themselves embroiled in a legal battle and facing multiple felonies based on an anonymous tip the local police received regarding some online videos they had filmed.”
As XBIZ exposed in a lengthy interview and feature in April, Mayven Doll and BDSMneam underwent an almost three-year-long legal ordeal in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
The couple had been charged in 2017 with nine felonies each, after police received a tip about a specific clip they had shot in public places around Jonesboro. The police downloaded and reviewed and had written descriptions of the clips included in a request for an arrest warrant and then raided the couple's home in full force, led by an officer known in the area for high-risk SWAT work against violent criminals.
The Jonesboro policeman who filed the affidavit to secure their warrant specifically worded his description of the clip to invoke three old Arkansas obscenity statues about “hard-core film” that are still in the state’s books.
The statutes are rarely applied to recorded sexual expression and are so overly broad that they penalize the act of owning a single commercial porn DVD.
After their arrest, sources close to the police immediately leaked information to a local Northeast Arkansas news and gossip site, which included salacious descriptions and stills of their videos, alongside the couple's legal names and other identifying information.
The local coverage was then picked up by the larger Arkansas newspapers and U.K. tabloids. Armed with the couple’s legal names, the British tabloids raided their Facebook pages for personal images, and one even published a photo of two of their three kids, pixilating their faces.
The nine felonies, which could have resulted in 54 years in prison, were held over the couple for almost three years, as their attorney could not secure a plea deal from the Jonesboro prosecutors to lower the charges to the far more common misdemeanor of indecent exposure.
Then suddenly in March, a few days after the original prosecutor finished a political campaign that resulted in his election to a newly created judgeship, prosecutors finally agreed to allow Mayven Doll and BDSMneam to plead the charges down to “indecent exposure.”
Their lives, however, had been irrevocably turned upside down by the ordeal.
The couple appeared on Randall’s popular adult industry podcast and YouTube show to talk about their experience in the clips world, their legal ordeal and the aftermath of their exclusive interview with XBIZ, after which they learned new information about the background of the police investigation against them.
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