BDSM MEDIA NEWS!!!!
29 may 2011
Murder defendant calls bondage photos consensual
Source: www.sfgate.com - Sfgate.com - USA
USA - SAN FRANCISCO - A 77-year-old Reno man charged with murdering four Northern California women said Friday that photos found in his home that depicted women in acts of bondage were taken with their consent.
Joseph Naso, who is acting as his own defense attorney, pleaded not guilty in Marin County Superior Court in San Rafael to four counts of murder, then asked a judge to free him on the grounds that police had no reason to arrest him.
Reading from a prepared statement, Naso acknowledged that photos and writings that police seized from his Reno home during a search in April 2010 depicted women in sexual situations. He denied, however, that the women in the photos had been coerced.
"No photos in the defendant's home show women in forced posing, forced bondage, or being deceased," Naso said.
He added, "All photos of women were posed under free will."
Authorities said they removed as many as 10,000 documents from Naso's home, including photographs and boxes filled with notebooks of his writings. They said the materials contributed to their decision to charge Naso with murdering Roxene Roggasch in 1977, Carmen Colon in 1978, Pamela Parsons in 1993 and Tracy Tafoya in 1994.
Roggasch's body was found in Fairfax and Colon's in Port Costa. Both Parsons and Tafoya were found in Yuba County, where they lived.
Authorities have given indications that some of Naso's writings were disturbing. In April, New York residents Margaret Prisco and her husband, Thaddeus Iorizzo, said a Nevada state police detective had told them the man they knew as "Crazy Joe" during their year living in a San Francisco apartment in the early 1980s had filled three notebooks with descriptions of how he wished to torment Prisco, then 23 years old.
On Friday, Judge Andrew Sweet told Naso he would consider his motion to dismiss the murder case once Naso entered the motion into the court record. Sweet set a preliminary hearing for July 11.
